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Description of  Unpacking Students Engagement with Feedback (Assessment in Schools: Principles in Practice)

1032320419 rar 1032320419 rar Learners of all levels receive a plethora of feedback messages on a daily or even hourly basis. Teachers, coaches, parents, peers all have suggestions and advice on how to improve or sustain a certain level of performance. This volume offers insights into the complexity of students engagement with feedback, the diversity of teachers feedback practices, and the influence of personal assessment beliefs in tension with prevailing contexts. It focuses on two main sections: what is students engagement with feedback? And what is the variety of teachers feedback practices? Under these themes, the content covers a broad range of key topics pertaining to instructional feedback, how it operates in a classroom and how students engage with feedback. Unarguably, feedback is a key element of successful instructional practices however we also know that (a) learners often dread it and dismiss it and (b) the effectiveness of feedback varies depending on teachers and students characteristics, specific characteristic of feedback messages that learners receive, as well as a number of contextual variables. What this volume articulates are new ways for learners to engage with feedback beyond recipience and uptake. Read more