Overview
Most tutoring feedback is binary: correct or incorrect, with a brief explanation of the right answer. This produces one of two failure modes: the student who becomes dependent on constant correction and cannot work without it, or the student who disengages from feedback because it never connects to their actual reasoning.
The Tutoring Feedback Protocol Designer builds a feedback system calibrated to what the feedback must accomplish at each point in the session: when to withhold feedback and let the student detect their own error, when to give process feedback rather than product feedback, and when to give direct corrective information because the error is too fundamental to scaffold around.
What you get: - Feedback taxonomy for tutoring: which type of feedback for which situation - Error detection protocol: how to help the student catch their own errors before the tutor names them - Process vs. product feedback decision rules - Praise calibration: what to affirm and what not to — the praise that builds independence vs. the praise that builds tutor-dependence - Written feedback templates for tutor notes and student records - Feedback timing map: when in the session to give which type of feedback
Built for: tutors, academic coaches, and instructors conducting one-on-one feedback sessions.