Feedback-giving as social practice: Teachers' perspectives on feedback as institutional requirement, work and dialogue

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 209-221

  Tuck, Jackie ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic literacies; dialogue; feedback; marking; student writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859582023     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2011.611870     Document Type: Article

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