The Interactive Effects of Goal Orientation and Feedback Specificity on Task Performance

This study examined the impact of goal orientation and feedback specificity on performance. Ninety undergraduate management students completed 3 phases of a computerized management decision-making simulation in conditions of low, moderate, or high feedback specificity. Learning orientation interacte...

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Published inHuman performance Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 409 - 426
Main Author Davis, Walter D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc 01.10.2005
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Feedback
Human performance
Performance evaluation
Task analysis
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Summary:This study examined the impact of goal orientation and feedback specificity on performance. Ninety undergraduate management students completed 3 phases of a computerized management decision-making simulation in conditions of low, moderate, or high feedback specificity. Learning orientation interacted with feedback specificity to predict performance in Phase 1, such that feedback specificity had a greater impact on performance for persons low in learning orientation. Performance orientation interacted with feedback specificity to predict performance in Phase 3, such that feedback specificity had a greater impact on performance for persons high in performance orientation.
ISSN:0895-9285
1532-7043
DOI:10.1207/s15327043hup1804_7