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Improving Students' Learning--The Role of Formative Feedback: Experiences from a Crash Course for Business Students in Academic Writing
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Torunn Olsen; John Hunnes – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
This paper discusses the role of formative feedback in teaching academic writing for a large class of first-year business students. The paper contributes to our knowledge on how to design an effective formative feedback process for a class in excess of 300 students. Based on survey data from 2018 the paper addresses how the students respond to…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), College Freshmen, Business Administration Education
From Surface to Deep Learning Approaches with Generative AI in Higher Education: An Analytical Framework of Student Agency
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Yunying Yang; Jinwen Luo; Miaoyan Yang; Runde Yang; Jiayin Chen – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Recent emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology has stimulated interests as well as concerns in their potential in teaching and learning. Situated in the new and transforming context, this study provides an avenue for students to introspectively explore their use of GenAI in a postgraduate course. Seventy-four students…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence, Learning Processes, Technology Uses in Education
'We Lose a Lot of Value': Feedback on English for Academic Purposes Speaking Skills in Online Teaching in a UK-China Joint-Venture University
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Sun, Qingyang; Yang, Zeyang – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Feedback practices for students' speaking activities in an online environment are very different from those on-site. This study investigated online feedback practices for speaking skills in a Sino-UK joint-venture university, as well as teachers and students' perceptions of the practices. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Educational Methods, Academic Language
Improving the Understanding of Written Peer Feedback through Face-to-Face Peer Dialogue: Students' Perspective
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Schillings, Marlies; Roebertsen, Herma; Savelberg, Hans; van Dijk, Anne; Dolmans, Diana – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Feedback plays a vital role in the process of mastering writing in many academic disciplines. Although peer feedback has been proven helpful to develop students' academic writing competency, the role of additional face-to-face peer dialogue in this context remains indistinct. Face-to-face peer dialogue on written peer feedback is expected to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Synchronous Communication, Dialogs (Language)
Building a Risky-Safe-Space: Using Reflective Pedagogies and Values to Support Writing Development in Work Based Learning
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Boyd, Vic; Wilson, Colin; Smith, Christopher – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
The concepts of 'graduateness' and graduate attributes became contested terrain before COVID-19 destabilised even the most assured of shared learning constructions. Indeed, for those of us immersed in the delivery of work-based learning (WBL), this has long been the case. Promotion of reductive notions of 'skills' acquisition to comply neatly with…
Descriptors: Reflection, Workplace Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Metacognition
Mediating EFL Learners' Academic Writing Skills in Online Dynamic Assessment Using Google Docs
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Ebadi, Saman; Rahimi, Masoud – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
Drawing on Vygotskian sociocultural theory of mind and social constructivism, and adopting a sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach, this study explored the impact of online dynamic assessment (DA) on EFL learners' academic writing skills through one-on-one individual and online synchronous DA sessions over Google Docs. It also investigated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns