Effective feedback for student learning in higher education
Effective feedback for student learning in higher education
By Dr Iris Vardi
Use the power of feedback to improve your students’ learning. Based on the latest insights from the literature, this easy-to-read guide will provide you with practical ways to plan for and provide feedback in class and on assessment tasks; to ensure that your students are able to give, receive and use feedback; and to evaluate your efforts. Find out how to:
- Set up a programme conducive to making feedback usable;
- Give powerful and effective feedback in class and on assessment tasks;
- Ensure your students are able to give, receive and use feedback; and
- Evaluate your efforts.
Top selling HERDSA Guide for 2012 – 2013 financial year!
Comments on the Guide :
“a stunning monograph – very much enjoyed it (and then pinched by a colleague who also went to read it)” (2012 email)
“I’m a great fan of Iris Vardi’s Effective Feedback Herdsa Green Guide and have been enthusiastically recommending it to colleagues in my own university and elsewhere. Indeed, we’d like to make it ‘recommended reading’ for the participants in our twice-yearly orientation programme for new teaching staff” (2013 email)
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Developing student’s critical thinking in the higher education class
By Dr Iris Vardi
Critical thinking is close to the heart of many academics. Yet its development can be challenging. Using the latest findings from the literature, this guide provides practical ways to explicitly teach and develop critical thinking in the design of units, assessments and class interactions. The guide examines:
- What critical thinking is
- How to effectively teach critical thinking in the context of the discipline
- How to effectively design units and assessments for critical thinking development
- How to build a critical thinking class milieu
- How to provide feedback that informs and progresses critical thinking
- How to evaluate what you have done
Top selling HERDSA Guide for 2013 – 2014 financial year!
This HERDSA Guide can be ordered at http://www.herdsa.org.au/?page_id=35
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