Effective feedback: guides students to adapt and adjust their learning strategies. guides teachers to adapt and adjust teaching to accommodate students’ learning needs. guides students to become independent and self-reflective learners, and better critics of their own work.

There are four types of constructive feedback:

• Negative feedback – corrective comments about past behaviour.
• Positive feedback – affirming comments about past behaviour.
• Negative feed-forward – corrective comments about future performance.
• Positive feed-forward – affirming comments about future behaviour.

Positive feedback decreases motivation for those same “want to do” tasks. So negative feedback is more effective for tasks students “have to do” (tasks they are “not committed to”) (p. 99).

The most effective type of feedback is high personalized and highly relevant to the subject area being assessed. Here are a few guidelines regarding the best use of feedback: Goal-oriented. Feedback should be tied to specific, measurable learning goals, objectives, or standards.

The purpose of feedback is to provide information and observations about a performance, a paper or another project. Teachers and employers provide feedback to students and employees to help them improve in the future.

Written communication

Reading, writing, speaking, and listening are basic communication skills necessary for effective communication in any environment, particularly the workplace. In a recent study, researchers examined the relationships between these four skills through TOEIC® test scores and found some interesting results.

Mobile Phones: Still the Number One Global Communication Channel. A 2014 Gallup study concluded that texting was the most popular method of communication among Americans, especially younger Americans.

Types Of Modern Communication

• Social Media.
• Social Media – Direct Message (DM)
• Instant Message (IM)
• SMS Text Messaging.
• Email Marketing.
• Direct Email.
• Blogging.
• Voice Calling.

• Verbal / Oral Communication.
• Non-Verbal Communication.
• Formal Communication.
• Lateral/ Horizontal Communication.
• Vertical Communication.
• Informal Communication.
• Written Communication.

“Good communication is frequent, focused, tailored and has some mechanism to make it a dialogue, rather than a monologue,” he explains. Being able to think about the point of view of others is key. One regular communication mistake is to believe everyone knows what we know.