This conceptual paper introduces feedback fluency as a novel way of thinking about the long-term development of student feedback literacy. Feedback fluency is defined as habits and automaticity in ...

Shijun (Cindy) Chen and David Carless, Faculty of Education, University of Hong KongWe are living in a complex and fast-changing world, shaped by technology, policies, and global developments. We have...

David Carless, University of Hong KongLast week, I did an online talk for a group of colleagues at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University about one my favorite topics: feedback seeking. I drew links betw...

Higher education is experiencing a significant drive towards more inclusive learning to support student success. Assessment, however, can often be a barrier to achieving that success. The literatur...

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We live in a time of complexity, uncertainty, and change that can exacerbate inequities. Student–faculty pedagogical partnership that embraces ‘unknowingness’ can prepare student partners both to n...

One of the potentials and challenges for the implementation of effective feedback processes lies in promoting and enacting purposeful student uptake of teacher written feedback. The theoretical fra...

Higher education’s true value lies not in skills or facts, but in transformative access to structured bodies of knowledge.

Feedback is a complex dialogic, sociomaterial practice that is shaped by digital affordances, institutional norms and various contextual factors. Even though it is widely recognised as crucial to acad...

This scoping review addresses the limited scopes of current research on classroom assessment in university mathematics education (UME). We examine 67 empirical studies (2012–2024) from two crucial ...

Rille Raaper, Durham University Contemporary student experiences of higher education are mediated by technology where intersections between in-person and digital experiences continue to evolve in new ...

Generative AI (GenAI) has gained attention as a new feedback source in education because it can generate human-like text. However, its use in feedback lacks a strong pedagogical framework, which is...

Student influencers, an emerging group of students on social media, are increasingly exploiting the gaps in higher education systems and are offering ...

Zheng Wenxin and David CarlessI am Zheng Wenxin, a second-year HKU student participating in the Eureka Undergraduate Research Programme, conducting a research project with Professor David Carless. Our...

Jennifer Chung, UCL Institute of Education For more than twenty years, Finland and its education system have captured attention and admiration worldwide. The country’s high outcomes in the Programme f...

Although ‘authentic assessment’ is widely used in higher education, its interpretation is often limited to an assessment task's technical relevance. This paper explores a more holistic conceptualis...

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Examinations are viewed as one of the least inclusive forms of assessment. Attainment gaps between different student groups (e.g. based on ethnicity) are more pronounced in examinations than in cou...

This critical review examines the evolving conceptualization of dialogue in feedback literacies within higher education, presenting a nuanced theoretical framework that challenges traditional under...

Writing teaches us how to think, so let's rethink, reframe, and reposition the essay to bring it back into the light, writes Alicja Syska

One of the problems with literatures work is that you deal with what’s published. And once you’ve accumulated what’s out there, you use them. You might find a definition or categories drawn from th…

Phenomenography offers a distinctive approach to studying human experience of the world, by highlighting different ways in which the same phenomena (concepts, objects, events) are experienced within a...

Insightful sharing by Jessica To of her new paper in HERD on co-creating feedback and feedback partnerships This podcast is contributed by Dr. Jessica To from Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre, ...

When David Carless published a paper on feedback literacy, its impact exceeded his most optimistic dreams. He explains how he did it

While the role of students in feedback is indisputable, developing learners’ proactivity in feedback processes remains challenging. This conceptual paper addresses this issue by proposing feedback ...

David Carless Over the last twenty years or so, many barriers to the implementation of effective feedback processes have been discussed: comments are brief, unclear, too harsh or not actionable. In th...

Whether they are behind a computer screen or behind bars, all students need support with making effective use of feedback – whether or not the process is a two-way street