Feedback codes and action plans: building the capacity of first-year students to apply feedback to a scientific report

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 508-527

  Bird, Fiona L ^a   Yucel, Robyn ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

feed forward; feedback; first year experience; formative assessment; laboratory report

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927794970     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2014.924476     Document Type: Article

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