Not seeing the wood for the trees: developing a feedback analysis tool to explore feed forward in modularised programmes

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1079-1094

  Hughes, Gwyneth ^a   Smith, Holly ^a   Creese, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disciplinary skills; feed forward; feedback analysis; feedback dialogue; modularisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945446793     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2014.969193     Document Type: Article

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