Impact of Feedback in Higher Education

This book asks how we might conceptualise, design for and evaluate the impact of feedback in higher education. Ultimately, the purpose of feedback is to improve what students can do: therefore, effective feedback must have impact. Students need to be actively engaged in seeking, sense-making and acting upon any information provided to them in order to develop and improve. Feedback can thus be understood as not just the giving of information, but as a complex process integral to teaching and learning in which both teachers and students have an important role to play. The editors challenge us to ask two fundamental questions: when does feedback make a difference, and how can we recognise that impact? This volume draws together leading international researchers across diverse disciplines, offering promising directions for both research and practice.

Michael Henderson is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.  Rola Ajjawi is Associate Professor in Educational Research at Deakin University, Australia. She is also Deputy Editor of the journal Medical Education. David Boud is Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University, Australia, Research Professor of Work and Learning at Middlesex University, UK and Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.  Elizabeth Molloy is Professor of Work Integrated Learning at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Academic Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.