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Publication Date: 2025
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What Predicts Undergraduates' Student Feedback Literacy? Impacts of Epistemic Beliefs and Mediation of Critical Thinking
Ying Zhan1; Zhi Hong Wan2; Munty Khon3
Teaching in Higher Education, v30 n4 p843-861 2025
Student feedback literacy is emphasised in recent literature as a critical attribute of university graduates. Although the impacts of epistemic beliefs on specific dimensions of student feedback literacy have been discussed in the literature, there is still a lack of quantitative research to investigate the strength of such impacts. This study explores the impact of epistemic beliefs on student feedback literacy among 727 Cambodian undergraduate students, using structural equation modelling. Results reveal that the complexity dimension of epistemic beliefs positively influences student feedback literacy, both directly and indirectly through critical thinking. Meanwhile, the source dimension directly influences student feedback literacy positively, but indirectly negatively through critical thinking. The justification dimension indirectly benefits student feedback literacy through critical thinking, while the certainty dimension has a direct negative effect. The study concludes that nurturing dialectic epistemic beliefs and critical thinking is vital for developing feedback-literate students in higher education.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Prediction, Feedback (Response), Multiple Literacies, Epistemology, Beliefs, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Cambodia
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Author Affiliations: 1Assessment Research Centre and Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 2Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 3Institute for International Studies and Public Policy, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia