Table 1.

Commonly used feedback rules (Pendleton and Schofield 1984; Branch and Paranjape 2002)

No.	Adequate feedback	Inadequate feedback
1	Is clear and concrete	Is vague and general
2	Is constructive and positive	Is destructive and negative
3	Is specific	Is non-specific
4	Comments on behaviour	Comments on personality
5	Is descriptive (formative)	Is evaluative (summative)