A teacher watches a student leave a ten-foot putt short and then informs her that the putt needed to be hit with more speed. This is an example of which of the following?

A teacher watches a student leave a ten-foot putt short and then informs her that the putt needed to be hit with more speed. This is an example of which of the following?

• A. Descriptive feedback
• B. Redundant augmented feedback
• C. Prescriptive feedback
• D. Knowledge of Results feedback

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is redundant augmented feedback. After the putt falls short, the outcome already signals that the speed wasn’t enough. The teacher’s remark that it needed to be hit with more speed doesn’t introduce new information or a specific corrective action beyond what the student can infer from the miss. It’s essentially restating what the learner could conclude from the result, rather than providing fresh guidance. If feedback had gone further to specify a precise adjustment in the stroke or tempo, or offered a more detailed technique to achieve the correct speed, that would be prescriptive feedback. Descriptive feedback would describe what happened in the movement without prescribing how to fix it, and Knowledge of Results would focus only on the outcome without suggesting how to change the action.

The main idea here is redundant augmented feedback. After the putt falls short, the outcome already signals that the speed wasn’t enough. The teacher’s remark that it needed to be hit with more speed doesn’t introduce new information or a specific corrective action beyond what the student can infer from the miss. It’s essentially restating what the learner could conclude from the result, rather than providing fresh guidance.

If feedback had gone further to specify a precise adjustment in the stroke or tempo, or offered a more detailed technique to achieve the correct speed, that would be prescriptive feedback. Descriptive feedback would describe what happened in the movement without prescribing how to fix it, and Knowledge of Results would focus only on the outcome without suggesting how to change the action.