Feeding forward from summative assessment: The Essay Feedback Checklist as a learning tool

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 253-262

  Wakefield, Caroline ^a   Adie, James ^b   Pitt, Edd ^c   Owens, Tessa ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; feedback; summative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890857984     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2013.822845     Document Type: Article

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