What makes for effective feedback: staff and student perspectives

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 25-36

  Dawson, Phillip ^a   Henderson, Michael ^b   Mahoney, Paige ^a   Phillips, Michael ^b   Ryan, Tracii ^b   Boud, David ^a   Molloy, Elizabeth ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment feedback; effective feedback; purpose of feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046102609     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2018.1467877     Document Type: Article

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