"I Think Many of Them Want to Appear to Have a Growth Mindset": Exploring Supervisors' Perceptions of Feedback-Seeking Behavior.

Feedback seeking may prompt supervisors to consider learners' motivations, potentially resulting in a set of entangled attributions, assumptions, and reactions that shape the feedback conversation in invisible and potentially problematic ways. Learners should consider these implications as they frame their feedback requests and be explicit about what they want and why they want it. Supervisors should monitor their responses, ask questions to clarify requests, and err on the side of assuming feedback-seeking requests are sincere.