The Impact of Feedback in Higher Education
Improving Assessment Outcomes for Learners
Editors: Henderson, M., Ajjawi, R., Boud, D., Molloy, E. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Questions how we can maximise the impact of feedback in higher education
- Outlines the process of feedback as a complex one involving both students and teachers
- Asks how feedback makes a difference, and how we can acknowledge that impact
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- About this book
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This book asks how we might conceptualise, design for and evaluate the impact of feedback in higher education. Ultimately, the purpose of feedback is to improve what students can do: therefore, effective feedback must have impact. Students need to be actively engaged in seeking, sense-making and acting upon any information provided to them in order to develop and improve. Feedback can thus be understood as not just the giving of information, but as a complex process integral to teaching and learning in which both teachers and students have an important role to play. The editors challenge us to ask two fundamental questions: when does feedback make a difference, and how can we recognise that impact? This volume draws together leading international researchers across diverse disciplines, offering promising directions for both research and practice.
- About the authors
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Michael Henderson is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Rola Ajjawi is Associate Professor in Educational Research at Deakin University, Australia. She is also Deputy Editor of the journal Medical Education. David Boud is Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University, Australia, Research Professor of Work and Learning at Middlesex University, UK and Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Elizabeth Molloy is Professor of Work Integrated Learning at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Academic Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Why Focus on Feedback Impact?
Pages 3-14
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Identifying Feedback That Has Impact
Pages 15-34
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Beware the Simple Impact Measure: Learning from the Parallels with Student Engagement
Pages 37-50
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Learners’ Feedback Literacy and the Longer Term: Developing Capacity for Impact
Pages 51-65
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Re-conceptualizing Feedback Through a Sociocultural Lens
Pages 67-82
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Impact of Feedback in Higher Education
- Book Subtitle
- Improving Assessment Outcomes for Learners
- Editors
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- Michael Henderson
- Rola Ajjawi
- David Boud
- Elizabeth Molloy
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-25112-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-25112-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-25111-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-25114-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 303
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
- Topics