What’s in a word? Practices associated with ‘feedforward’ in higher education

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 1279-1290

  Reimann, Nicola ^a   Sadler, Ian ^b   Sambell, Kay ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; Feedback; feedforward; modularisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064515632     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2019.1600655     Document Type: Article

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