Feedback for Learning

Feedback for Learning

Closing the assessment loop

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  • New journal article – Developing a learning-centred framework for feedback literacyOctober 17, 2019
    Members of the project team have authored a new journal article titled ‘Developing a learning-centred framework for feedback literacy‘. This article is published in the journal Assessment & Evaluation in
  • New journal article – Conditions that enable effective feedbackOctober 17, 2019
    The project team have authored a new article titled ‘Conditions that enable effective feedback‘, which is published in the journal Higher Education Research & Development. The article proposes that there are 12
  • New edited book – The Impact of Feedback in Higher EducationSeptember 19, 2019
    Members of the project team, Michael Henderson, David Boud and Elizabeth Molloy, along with Rola Ajjawi from Deakin University, have co-edited a new book titled The Impact of Feedback in
  • New journal article – The usefulness of feedbackSeptember 18, 2019
    The project team have authored a journal article titled ‘The usefulness of feedback‘, which is published in the journal Active Learning in Higher Education. The article draws on survey data
  • New journal article – The challenges of feedback in higher educationApril 15, 2019
    Project team members Michael Henderson, Tracii Ryan, and Michael Phillips have published a new paper in the journal Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. The paper presents a qualitative analysis of feedback
  • New journal article on feedback modesMarch 1, 2019
    Project team members Tracii Ryan, Michael Henderson, and Michael Phillips have co-authored a new journal article which presents a study of students’ perceptions of feedback modes. The article, which is published in
  • New book chapter – Technology and feedback designSeptember 17, 2018
    The project team has authored a book chapter called Technology and Feedback Design, which is part of a Springer major reference work titled Learning, Design, and Technology: An International Compendium
  • New journal article – What makes for effective feedback: staff and student perspectivesAugust 20, 2018
    The team has a new paper out in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. This paper explores what educators and students think the purpose of feedback is, and what they
  • Feedback for Learning – final report now availableMay 7, 2018
    The final report for the project Feedback for Learning – Closing the Assessment Loop has just been released. The full report can be downloaded here, and a one-page project overview
  • Challenges of feedback – even more survey findings from staff and studentsFebruary 21, 2018
    The following findings emerged from a thematic analysis of two open response items – one staff item, and one student item – from the large-scale survey of staff and students
  • Beliefs and understandings of feedback – more survey findings from staff and studentsFebruary 21, 2018
    The findings discussed below emerged from a thematic analysis of five open-response items from the large-scale survey of staff and students at Deakin University and Monash University (click here for
  • New journal article – Feeling feedback: students’ emotional responses to educator feedbackDecember 15, 2017
    Project team members Tracii Ryan and Michael Henderson have co-authored a new journal article based on the large-scale survey data from this project. The article, published in Assessment and Evaluation in
  • Feedback webinar: Recording and slides now availableDecember 1, 2017
    On Thursday 30 November, A/Prof. Michael Henderson (Monash University) and A/Prof. Phillip Dawson (Deakin University) lead a 45-minute webinar in which they provided a brief masterclass of feedback designs, and
  • Current feedback practices – findings from large scale surveyNovember 28, 2017
    The following provides a first glance at a selection of the Phase 1 survey data. Due to the extensive nature of the data, not all survey items are reported here.
  • Universities are failing their students through poor feedback practicesNovember 28, 2017
    Feedback for Learning project lead Michael Henderson discusses some of our findings in The Conversation. Educators and students often struggle to learn from each other through the use of feedback.
  • Feedback for Learning Webinar – Thursday 30 November, 2017 November 15, 2017
    Assessment feedback regularly receives low course satisfaction ratings in student surveys, with students reporting that comments from educators can be ambiguous, confusing, and returned too late to be useful. However,
  • Join us for our National Feedback RoadshowSeptember 14, 2017
    We are excited to announce that we are bringing key findings and practice implications from the Feedback for Learning project to six capital cities around Australia this October! Thanks to
  • Infographic showing ‘first glance’ survey findingsAugust 7, 2017
  • What makes for ineffective feedback?June 1, 2017
    by Phillip Dawson The literature is filled with claims about what makes for effective feedback, for example, feedback that focuses on student self-regulation; feedback designs that require students to act
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