Learners are provided specific feedback about adequate and inadequate feedback.

Feedback:

• is specific to the present learning task
• can be verbal and/or nonverbal
• should be timely
• includes more information than whether responses are simply correct or incorrect

Adequate responses are those that are correct or that approximate expected learning outcomes.

Inadequate responses are those that are incorrect or that have little relationship to expected learning outcomes.

In a social studies lesson, learners are asked to justify their answers to the teacher’s questions. As learners respond, the teacher listens carefully and points out specific correct and incorrect elements of learners’ responses. Other learners are also asked to listen and to make comments about correct and incorrect responses.

Following a learner’s clear, concise explanation of capitalism, the teacher responds, "from your reading in a manner that is very, very clear, you included all the important parts!"