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This fundamental text provides cutting-edge theory and practical insights into how formative assessment and feedback can be used enhance student learning development, through exploring an exciting range of case studies from experts in the field.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Formative Assessment and Feedback in Post-Digital Higher Education 3. Creating a formative-feedback trialogue by embedding an e-learning theory package into undergraduate music education. 4. Reflective Writing Online as a Powerful Formative Assessment Tool in Teacher Leadership Development 5. Developing student employability through formative assessment and virtual project learning in the social science curriculum 6. Using formative feedback to scaffold and manage student wellbeing in an accelerated online research course 7. Promoting Situated Change Towards Sustainability and Climate Action through Post-Digital Online Distance Learning Pedagogy 8. Conversations in Context: Reframing Assessment for International Trainee Teachers 9. Formative and Summative assessment rubrics for a UK postgraduate taught Education Studies module 10. Implementing ipsative feedback through interconnected tasks and comparison processes in a direct-entry program 11. An online peer assessment tool for embedding authentic feedback literacy in students studying creative subjects. 12. Integrating Scaffolding Instructional Strategy through Digital Tools for Improving Academic Performance among Undergraduate Finance Students 13. Developing an Experiential Formative Assessment Activity with GIST (Gamification, Instructing, Sharing, Tracking) Framework 14. Formative feedback for international supply chain post-graduate students combining digital and face-to-face formats to enhance engagement and criticality. 15. Meet Zara: An AI-generated teaching assistant for enhancing formative assessment and self-regulated learning 16. Creating an academic safety net for newly inducted undergraduate medical students using formative assessments and feedback 17. Using e-Portfolios and video reflections to support postgraduate students' personal and professional development 18. Using digital multisource feedback to provide medical students with formative feedback on their workplace behaviour and professional progress 19. Formatively assessing competency in practical skills in the Biological Sciences through direct observations and oral feedback 20. Embedding Formative Assessment in the Flipped Statistics Classroom 21. Embedding Formative Feedback through Differentiated Instruction using Microsoft OneNote Class Notebooks 22. Scaling up and automating formative assessment in computer science 23. A Data-Driven Approach to Student Support using Formative Feedback and Targeted Interventions 24. Beyond the Unit: A Course-Wide, Iterative Formative Assessment and Feedback Framework for Enhancing Learning and Employability Skills in Computer Science Education 25. Formative Diagnostics for Student Transitions & Success through Personalised Guidance 26. Using an ongoing Formative Feedback approach to support Early Career Academics make progress towards their End Point Assessment 27. Reimagining Formative Assessment and Feedback: Propositions for Practice
About the author
Sam Elkington is Professor of Learning and Teaching at Teesside University, UK, and is a PFHEA and National Teaching Fellow (NTF).
Alastair Irons is Deputy Principal and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Professor of Computer Science at Abertay University, UK. He previously served as Academic Director for Digital Education and Dean of the Faculty of Technology at the University of Sunderland, UK.
Summary
This fundamental text provides cutting-edge theory and practical insights into how formative assessment and feedback can be used enhance student learning development, through exploring an exciting range of case studies from experts in the field.
