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Biology students’ utilization of tutors’ formative feedback: a qualitative interview study

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Pages 369-386 | Published online: 14 Sep 2010

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Anahuac Valero Haro, Omid Noroozi, Harm J. A. Biemans, Martin Mulder & Seyyed Kazem Banihashem. (2023) How does the type of online peer feedback influence feedback quality, argumentative essay writing quality, and domain-specific learning?. Interactive Learning Environments 0:0, pages 1-20.
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Lesley J. Morrell. (2021) Iterated assessment and feedback improves student outcomes. Studies in Higher Education 46:3, pages 485-496.
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Angela Choi Fung Tam. (2021) Undergraduate students’ perceptions of and responses to exemplar-based dialogic feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 46:2, pages 269-285.
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Betty Tärning, Yeon Joo Lee, Richard Andersson, Kristian Månsson, Agneta Gulz & Magnus Haake. (2020) Assessing the black box of feedback neglect in a digital educational game for elementary school. Journal of the Learning Sciences 29:4-5, pages 511-549.
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Michael Page, John Gardner & Joe Booth. (2020) Validating written feedback in clinical formative assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 45:5, pages 697-713.
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Jennifer Hill & Harry West. (2020) Improving the student learning experience through dialogic feed-forward assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 45:1, pages 82-97.
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Lisa Wiltbank, Kurt Williams, Rachel Salter, Lauren Marciniak, Emily Sederstrom, Melody McConnell, Erika Offerdahl, Jeffrey Boyer & Jennifer Momsen. (2019) Student perceptions and use of feedback during active learning: a new model from repeated stimulated recall interviews. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 44:3, pages 431-448.
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Anna Steen-Utheim & Therese N Hopfenbeck. (2019) To do or not to do with feedback. A study of undergraduate students’ engagement and use of feedback within a portfolio assessment design. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 44:1, pages 80-96.
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Edd Pitt & Naomi Winstone. (2018) The impact of anonymous marking on students’ perceptions of fairness, feedback and relationships with lecturers. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 43:7, pages 1183-1193.
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Rola Ajjawi & David Boud. (2017) Researching feedback dialogue: an interactional analysis approach. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 42:2, pages 252-265.
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Naomi E. Winstone, Robert A. Nash, Michael Parker & James Rowntree. (2017) Supporting Learners' Agentic Engagement With Feedback: A Systematic Review and a Taxonomy of Recipience Processes. Educational Psychologist 52:1, pages 17-37.
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Kristi Mumm, Mari Karm & Marvi Remmik. (2016) Assessment for learning: Why assessment does not always support student teachers’ learning. Journal of Further and Higher Education 40:6, pages 780-803.
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Maria Jackson & Leah Marks. (2016) Improving the effectiveness of feedback by use of assessed reflections and withholding of grades. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 41:4, pages 532-547.
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Angela J. McLean, Carol H. Bond & Helen D. Nicholson. (2015) An anatomy of feedback: a phenomenographic investigation of undergraduate students' conceptions of feedback. Studies in Higher Education 40:5, pages 921-932.
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Martin Barker & Michelle Pinard. (2014) Closing the feedback loop? Iterative feedback between tutor and student in coursework assessments. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 39:8, pages 899-915.
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Leopold Bayerlein. (2014) Students’ feedback preferences: how do students react to timely and automatically generated assessment feedback?. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 39:8, pages 916-931.
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Alasdair Blair, Alun Wyburn-Powell, Mark Goodwin & Sam Shields. (2014) Can dialogue help to improve feedback on examinations?. Studies in Higher Education 39:6, pages 1039-1054.
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Lesley J. Morrell. (2014) Use of Feed-forward Mechanisms in a Novel Research-led Module. Bioscience Education 22:1, pages 70-81.
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Jinrui Li & Rosemary De Luca. (2014) Review of assessment feedback. Studies in Higher Education 39:2, pages 378-393.
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Shirley V. Scott. (2014) Practising what we preach: towards a student-centred definition of feedback. Teaching in Higher Education 19:1, pages 49-57.
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Paul Orsmond, Stephen Merry & Arthur Callaghan. (2013) Communities of practice and ways to learning: charting the progress of biology undergraduates. Studies in Higher Education 38:6, pages 890-906.
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Min Yang & David Carless. (2013) The feedback triangle and the enhancement of dialogic feedback processes. Teaching in Higher Education 18:3, pages 285-297.
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Brian Irwin, Stuart Hepplestone, Graham Holden, Helen J. Parkin & Louise Thorpe. (2013) Engaging students with feedback through adaptive release. Innovations in Education and Teaching International 50:1, pages 51-61.
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Francis Q. Brearley & W. Rod Cullen. (2012) Providing Students with Formative Audio Feedback. Bioscience Education 20:1, pages 22-36.
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Sheila A Hope. (2011) Making Movies: The Next Big Thing in Feedback?. Bioscience Education 18:1, pages 1-14.
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Carol Evans & Michael Waring. (2011) Exploring students' perceptions of feedback in relation to cognitive styles and culture. Research Papers in Education 26:2, pages 171-190.
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Paul Orsmond & Stephen Merry. (2011) Feedback alignment: effective and ineffective links between tutors’ and students’ understanding of coursework feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 36:2, pages 125-136.
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David Nicol. (2010) From monologue to dialogue: improving written feedback processes in mass higher education. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 35:5, pages 501-517.
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D. Royce Sadler. (2010) Beyond feedback: developing student capability in complex appraisal. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 35:5, pages 535-550.
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Ruth Bevan, Joanne Badge, Alan Cann, Chris Willmott & Jon Scott. (2008) Seeing Eye-to-Eye? Staff and Student Views on Feedback. Bioscience Education 12:1, pages 1-15.
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Karen Ellery. (2008) Assessment for learning: a case study using feedback effectively in an essay‐style test. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 33:4, pages 421-429.
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Stephen Merry & Paul Orsmond. (2008) Students’ Attitudes to and Usage of Academic Feedback Provided Via Audio Files. Bioscience Education 11:1, pages 1-11.
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BethR. Crisp. (2007) Is it worth the effort? How feedback influences students’ subsequent submission of assessable work. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 32:5, pages 571-581.
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