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How to Give Students Specific Feedback That Actually Helps Them Learn I have always loved valuable feedback from academic papers that I have written. Regardless of my grade, I always want to be able to go back through the paper and see where I excelled and where I lost points. However, I've never really been the one to leave feedback on papers, seeing as how I am not the grader. But this article was a good insight into my graders head and could potentially help me see things through a different perspective. Preschoolers and Praise: What Kinds of Messages Help Kids Grow? I picked this article because I simply enjoyed reading it. I'm not a preschooler, so I'm not sure this article will really help me, but I love learning about how kids should learn. I do think that the "power of 'yet'" is something that everybody can benefit from though. Instead of saying "I can't do it", saying "I can't do it yet " can be highly motivatin...

5 Tips for Taking Feedback Like a Champ The Psychology of Comparison and How to Stop I selected these two articles because I felt like they most related to the way that I tend to handle feedback and posted assignments in general. I'll start with The Psychology of Comparison. This is something that I think about quite often. Whenever I have to post something I am always afraid of doing it incorrectly or too differently and I always feel like I need to look at everyone else's work first, so that my post will blend in more. And it isn't so much about the content of my posts. I'm not worried about having differing thoughts as my fellow students, I just want to make sure that my format is correct, or should I say, incorrect in the same ways as everyone else's. But I thought the section talking about making sure that you stay away from saying things like "my site will never look as good as theirs" was really crucial. Looking back at some of the storybooks...