The Impact of Feedback in Higher Education Improving Assessment Outcomes for Learners /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Henderson, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ajjawi, Rola (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Boud, David (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Molloy, Elizabeth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Assessment.; Higher education.; Learning.; Instruction.; Educational psychology.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Higher Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Pedagogic Psychology.
• Physical Description: XIX, 303 p. 6 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030251123
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25112-3

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.