Feedback That Leads to Improvement in Student Essays: Testing the Hypothesis that “Where to Next” Feedback is Most Powerful

Frontiers in Education

Volumn 6, Issue , 2021, Pages

  Hattie, John ^a,b   Crivelli, Jill ^c   Van Gompel, Kristin ^c   West Smith, Patti ^c   Wike, Kathryn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Hattie Family Foundation   (Australia)

^c IMS Research   (United States)

Author keywords

computer generated scoring; essay scoring; feedback; formative evaluation; instructional practice; instructional technologies; summative evaluation; writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85108314519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2504284X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2021.645758     Document Type: Article

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