Correct Answer:
A. You began promptly and checked each step carefully.
Correct answer: You began promptly and checked each step carefully. “You began promptly and checked each step carefully” names exactly what the learner did, which is behaviour-specific praise.
- You are clearly the most talented learner in the group. Praising talent focuses on the person rather than a behaviour.
- This whole class has been generally good today. Generic praise for the whole class does not identify a behaviour.
- Well done, whatever it was that you were doing. “Whatever it was” names no behaviour at all.