What feedback literate teachers do: an empirically-derived competency framework

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2023, Pages 158-171

  Boud, David ^a,b,c   Dawson, Phillip ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic development; course design; Feedback literacy; inductive analysis; pedagogical processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85104388049     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2021.1910928     Document Type: Article

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