Civic teachers' feedback to students : A qualitative study on the teaching profession's view of feedback as a motivator

The purpose with this study is to examine the aspect regarding how teachers gives feedback and how that impact on students motivation. How does verbal and written feedback impact on students motivation and can teachers state that feedback is lowering students motivation or raising it? This study empiricism is based on material from semi-structural interviews with five teachers, all with the teacher certification. Subject that was discussed is social studies grade seven to nine. This work is based on self determination theory that shows the connection between feedback and motivation. Result show that teacher gives feedback to get their students to develop and increase their motivation. Feedback shall be mostly positive and it shows that verbal feedback is more motivational than in writing