In higher education, understanding discipline-specific vocabulary can be challenging. Insufficient vocabulary can be a major challenge for students as they begin their university studies. This study examined university undergraduate English language learners' discipline-specific vocabulary retention when they used an in-house developed mobile app,…

How can learners be supported to engage productively in the kinds of feedback practices they may encounter after they graduate? This article introduces a novel concept of authentic feedback to denote processes which resemble the feedback practices of the discipline, profession or workplace. Drawing on the notion of authentic assessment, a…

Describes how a measure of problem difficulty (problem complexity) can be developed. Explores factors that may affect the difficulty of mathematics problems by focusing on ninth-grade student test responses (n=125), mathematics teacher questionnaire responses (n=29) in Hong Kong (China), and using a computer. Identifies four problem difficulty…