A Comparison of Teacher and Student Perspectives of Tasks and Feedback
in Journal of Teaching in Physical EducationClick name to view affiliation
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The purpose of this study was to directly compare teacher and student expectations for task difficulty and performance, perceptions of actual task difficulty, perceptions of student performance and effort, and perceptions of teacher feedback. Stimulated recall interviews following a 14-lesson volleyball unit were conducted with 8 sixth-grade students and their physical education teacher. The results revealed little congruency between student and teacher perspectives of task difficulty or perceptions of student performance and effort. The students and the teacher agreed the most on expected performance level and the least on perceptions of effort. Such differences in perspectives may be partially explained by the sources of information used by the teacher and students to form their expectations and perceptions. There was somewhat higher agreement between the teacher and students on the purpose of and affective reactions to skill-related feedback.
Bonnie L. Tjeerdsma is with the Department of Kinesiology and Health at Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303.
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