Abstract:
This study investigated the effects of self-monitoring,
self-esteem, and multiple feedback sources on performance.
Participants were 142 Developmental Psychology students
from a small mid-western university who completed the
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory and the Snyder Self Monitoring
Scale before participating in two group
presentations. Participants were given feedback on their
performance from a combination of self, instructor and peer
feedback depending on the condition they were assigned.
Results indicated that feedback does play a role in
performance improvement. In addition, feedback systems with
more than one source of feedback produce significantly
greater performance improvement than those with just one
source of feedback, suggesting that multi-source feedback
systems are more effective than the traditional top-down
feedback systems used by most organizations today.
