Mistakes and feedback

10 Students´ mistakes terms

In this glosary I will talk about students´ mistakes and how to give them some feedback

Accuracy
Noun
The quality or state of being correct or precise.
Example: Greene, Paul E., 'The Conquest of Mexico: The Views of the Chroniclers', in The Americas , Vol. 31 (1974-75), p.164 However Cortés' own account is not the only area of questionable accuracy among the historian's sources for this event.
es: Exactitud
Accuracy
Assessment
Noun
The evaluation or estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something.
Example: This report will firstly outline the following topics; structure, membership, policy objectives, function of the Institute, secondly demonstrate the recent achievement of its work with an example of the production of guideline for Ecological Impact assessment, and thirdly discuss the role of Rural Environmental Scientists in the Institute.
es: Evaluación
sustainability impact assessment
Correction
Noun
The action or process of correcting something.
Example: Documentation should be recorded and include the results of audits, checking and correction actions.
es: Corrección
correction tape
Feedback
noun
Information about reactions to a product, a person's performance of a task, etc. which is used as a basis for improvement.
Example: Communication allows management to be able to operate in a more efficient method as they can receive feedback and ideas from members of staff and also customers where relevant.
es: Retroalimentación
Goal-actual performance
Fluency
Noun
The quality or condition of being fluent.
Example: Language in AD patients has been described as only really lacking comprehension and content (Goodglass and Kaplan, 1983 as cited in Morris, 1999), demonstrated by a gross impairment in learning abstract simple concepts and in tests of verbal fluency (Morris, 1999) and resulting also in the reduction of semantic memory.
es: Fluidez
Fluency in our speach
Grade
Noun
A particular level of rank, quality, proficiency, intensity, or value.
Example: The incisors, canines and premolars belong to grade 5 6 of the scale recommended by Buikstra et al (1994: 52); the molars, however, fall under the category of 4+ 5 classification of Brothwell (1981: 72).
es: Calificación o rango
Grade related to the school
Interference
Noun
The action of interfering or the process of being interfered with.
Example: Scientists knew that photons can sometimes behave like waves as interference (superposition) occurs when two photons travel in the same path.
es: Interferencia
Interference of light
Performance
Noun
The action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.
Example: Deficiency has adverse effects on work capacity , intellectual performance and behaviour and ultimately defective erythropoeisis leading to hypochromic anaemia .
es: Desempeño
Performance related to the price
Report
Noun
Give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, done, or investigated.
Example: The analogy he cites in opposition to this is of a football match, following the game, a report appears in the Times and then in the Guardian. It would be illogical to suggest that the Guardian's report is caused by the Times' one but the latter would however provide good evidence for the former, behaviour could still give clues to a person's qualia.
es: Reporte
aviation accident final report
To puzzle
Verb
To feel confused because they cannot understand or make sense of something.
Example: One thing that puzzle some teachers is why students go on making the same mistakes even when those mistakes repeatedly pointed out to them
es: Desconcertar
To puzzle