Which feedback strategy avoids providing error-specific cues to promote faster progress?

• A. Non-error augmented feedback
• B. Knowledge of results
• C. Knowledge of performance
• D. Descriptive feedback

Answer: (A)

Non-error augmented feedback gives information that isn’t tied to specific mistakes. By avoiding error-specific cues, it reduces the learner’s reliance on external corrections and encourages using intrinsic feedback to refine the movement. This promotes quicker progress because the learner must explore and solve problems on their own, building adaptable skills rather than following a prescribed fix after every attempt. In contrast, strategies that describe what went wrong or how to adjust the movement provide explicit error cues, which can lead to over-reliance on external guidance. Even knowledge of results focuses on the outcome, but it doesn’t offer the same non-specific support for autonomous problem-solving as non-error feedback does.