What do students want most from written feedback information? Distinguishing necessities from luxuries using a budgeting methodology

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1237-1253

  Winstone, Naomi E ^a   Nash, Robert A ^b   Rowntree, James ^a   Menezes, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

approaches to learning; feedback; student preferences; teacher characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939485861     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2015.1075956     Document Type: Article

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