How can learners be supported to engage productively in the kinds of feedback practices
they may encounter after they graduate? This article introduces a novel concept of authentic …

It is recognised that effective feedback is an integral component of successful teaching,
learning and assessment processes. However, there is substantial evidence of …

This article reports the findings of research into the student experience of assessment in
school/college and higher education, and the impact of transition upon student perceptions …

There is an increasing focus on notions of feedback in which students are positioned as
active players rather than recipients of information. These discussions have been either …

Feedback can be an important catalyst for improvement. Helpful comments which enable
students to see issues from fresh perspectives are central in supporting the ongoing …

Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on student achievement, yet it is difficult to
implement productively within the constraints of a mass higher education system. Designing …

A variety of understandings of feedback exist in the literature, which can broadly be
categorised as cognitivist information transmission and socio-constructivist. Understanding …

Feedback remains a fundamental and challenging aspect of higher education policy and
practice. Increasingly research has sought to understand how to more effectively develop …

In recent years, there have been calls in the literature for the dominant model of feedback to
shift away from the transmission of comments from marker to student, towards a more …

The re-conceptualisation of feedback envisaged in this volume takes at its heart a dialogic
approach to feedback. Dialogue is more than conversation or exchange of ideas, it involves …