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Reconceptualising assessment feedback: a key to improving student learning?
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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 of feedback quality. It involved a qualitative study of 23 staff and 145 students in six schools/colleges and three English universities across three disciplines. Results show that students experience a radically different culture of feedback in schools/colleges and higher education, with the former providing extensive formative feedback and guidance, while the latter focuses upon independent learning judged summatively. Students perceived quality feedback as part of a dialogic guidance process rather than a summative event. A model is proposed, the Dialogic Feedback Cycle, to describe student experiences at school/college, and suggestions are made as to how it can be used as a tool to scaffold the development of independent learning throughout the first year of university study.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beaumont, C., O’Doherty, M., & Shannon, L.
- Affiliations
- Edge Hill University (GB)
- Liverpool Hope University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Beaumont, Chris
- ORCID
- Beaumont, Chris
- Venue
- Studies in Higher Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-09
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 671-687
- ISSN
- 0307-5079 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-174X
- OpenAlex
- W2010319006
- Cited by
- 291
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 56.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Studies in Higher Education (publishedVersion)
- Edge Hill University Research Information Repository (Edge Hill University) (submittedVersion)
- Edge Hill University (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Student Assessment and Feedback
- Social Sciences › Education › Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Keywords
- assessment feedback, feedback quality, student experience, transition to higher education, formative feedback, summative assessment, dialogic feedback, self-directed learning, first-year students, school-to-university transition, student perceptions
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