Two types of feedback in teaching swimming skills to handicapped children.
Two types of feedback (non-task-specific praise and task-specific praise plus corrections) were used in a counterbalanced design to teach two swimming skills to each of four handicapped children. The children were grouped into pairs, and each member of a pair received the alternate type of feedback for the same skill. In every case, faster and more complete acquisition was found to result from task-specific praise plus corrections.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D012056:Reinforcement, Social; D013550:Swimming; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*