My personal experience as a teacher in Japan has raised questions about the usefulness of
both summative and formative assessment, the possible benefits of non-traditional …

Assessment and feedback research constitutes its own 'silo'amidst the higher education
research field. Theory has been cast as an important but absent aspect of higher education …

Both formative assessment and growth mindset scholars aim to understand how to enhance
achievement. While research on formative assessment focuses on external teaching …

Formative assessment practices map neatly onto many frameworks for high-quality teaching.
Yet, in teacher preparation programs these practices are often left out of discussions of …

A narrative frame is a data collection instrument comprising a series of sentence prompts
that facilitate the elicitation of participant narratives by scaffolding the writing process …

Background Formative feedback plays a critical role in guiding learners to gain competence,
serving as an opportunity for reflection and feedback on their learning progress and needs …

First-year university students' underdeveloped academic literacies can lead to
dissatisfaction and poor performance. University teachers find it difficult to take action …

Awarding gaps between various groups of students persist across the Higher Education
sector, yet the responses designed to address the contributors remain localised. The sudden …

Negli ultimi decenni l'università è stata oggetto di numerosi cambiamenti, in relazione agli
scopi, alle funzioni, e ai destinatari delle sue azioni, ed è stata chiamata a transitare, da una …

This paper examines teaching practices prevailing across five cities (Hong Kong, Macau,
Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei) for the underpinning pedagogical identities that inform …