Importance of Goal and Feedback Orientation in Determining Feedback Effectiveness

Abstract: In this study, we examine two student characteristics (goal orientation and feedback orientation) that might predispose students to use benefit from different types of feedback. Students receiving future-oriented exhibited significantly greater improvement in their quiz scores compared past-oriented feedback, although the degree was a function both goal orientation. Specifically, high learning-goal-orientation had performance when they received while performance-prove-orientation with active-feedback-seeking improved more than other students, passive-feedback-seeking less