Difficulties in the use of feedback in physical education teacher training

Abstract

This study explores the difficulties that future physical education teachers have when using feedback in simulated teaching situations on body expression. For two years, action research was carried out at the University of Valladolid and the University of Zaragoza in which students, during the feedback process integrated into a formative assessment system, become aware of their use of feedback and progress in teaching and assessing tasks as a part of the learning process itself. Action research is carried out during two academic years and an analysis of content with a coding information process is performed to discover communicative difficulties experienced. The main issues observed are related to the scarce presence of affective or motivating feedback. Regarding affective feedback, they consider it important, although data shows that they find it difficult to use it; being a fundamental part of the improvement of communication and the teaching process.