"Praise in Public; Criticize in Private": Unwritable Assessment Comments and the Performance Information That Resists Being Written.

When written comment requests to document performance information are viewed as an act of disclosure, it becomes clear why supervisors may feel compelled to leave some comments unwritten. Although supervisors can be supported in writing better assessment comments, their failure to write invites a reexamination of expectations for documenting feedback and performance information as written comments on assessment forms.