The impact of feedback frequency on learning and task performance: Challenging the " more is better" assumption

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-228

  Lam, Chak Fu ^a   DeRue, D Scott ^a   Karam, Elizabeth P ^b   Hollenbeck, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback frequency; Learning; Task performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053276744     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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