Tasks with Feedback

• Goals
  • Describe Tasks with Feedback (TwF)
  • Skillfully use TwFs
    • Your Own Learning
    • Guiding someone else’s learning

What?

Tasks with Feedback (TwF) is a method for learning that involves two main actions:

1. Tasks. Applying information to be learned to do useful things typically in the real world

2. Feedback. Getting information about your performance, how well you did and how to improve, and then applying this feedback to improve knowledge or improve performance.

This method features learning by doing useful things in the real world and opposed to trying to learn by just using passive methods like listening to lectures, reading, taking tests, and so on.

Analysis (Main Ideas)

Method or Process

A method (or process) is a set of actions that produce useful results plus other rewards. Methods can be taught, learned, applied, and improved.

Learning

Learning is the process of changing the brain such that knowledge or performance improves. Note: All learning involves these brain changes; that is, learning is a biological process that is associated with systematic and distributed repetitions of meaningful experiences.

Real World

The real world refers to authentic setting in which actions can produce useful results like helping others and solving problems and enviroments that include complexity, ambiguity, accurate and inaccurate information, success, failue, struggle, joy, and so on.

Knowledge

Knowledge refers to good information (useful, accurate, justified, and such) that is encoded in the learner’s brain such that they can apply it, remember it, and so on. Knowledge can be declarative or non-declarative.

Performance

Performance refers to the ability to do something well enough for the context (surrounding circumstance). Performance can always be improved.