Which type of feedback describes an error made by the student?

Descriptive knowledge of performance (KP) is a type of feedback that specifically highlights errors or aspects of performance that need improvement. It focuses on providing detailed information about what went wrong during the execution of a skill, allowing the student to understand their mistakes and make necessary corrections. By articulating the nature of the errors, it helps learners identify the specific areas they need to adjust in their technique or approach.

This form of feedback is particularly valuable because it encourages self-reflection and a deeper understanding of one’s performance, fostering the ability to self-correct in future attempts. In contrast, prescriptive feedback involves giving a solution or corrective action to the error, relevant feedback pertains to the applicability of comments to the student's goals, and intrinsic feedback comes from the athlete's own sensory experiences while performing the task. Each of these alternatives does not focus on identifying and describing the error itself as explicitly as descriptive KP does.