Pre-service teacher use of communication strategies upon receiving immediate feedback

•Intervention consisted of blue tooth technology and conferencing software to provide feedback to teachers.•Findings suggest this type of feedback enhances pre-service teachers’ use of evidence based practices.•Pre-service teachers indicated this intervention was useful and helpful to them.

The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of immediate feedback through bug-in-ear eCoaching on early childhood special education pre-service teachers’ use of communication strategies using an activity-based intervention approach. Three early childhood special education pre-service teachers participated in this study. A multiple-probe, single-case design was used to determine the effects of immediate feedback through bug-in-ear eCoaching on teachers’ use of communication strategies. Results indicate that immediate feedback through bug-in-ear eCoaching enhanced pre-service teachers’ use of communication strategies within small-group activities. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.