Formative Assessment and Feedback in Post-Digital Learning Environments

This fundamental text provides cutting-edge theory and practical insights into how formative assessment and feedback can be used enhance student learning development, through exploring an exciting range of case studies from experts in the field.

Underpinned by relevant theory and real-world advice spanning the global higher education sector, this book examines the importance of technology and digital education in shaping the use of assessment and feedback in higher education. Presented through international perspectives in assessment research and practice across a broad array of subject disciplines, the book focuses on the inclusion of empirical evidence, as well as the contemporary issues and challenges currently facing formative assessment. The case studies bring to life strategies and approaches that utilise a combination of digital and material tools to promote a range of innovative formative assessment practices, including facilitating dialogic formative assessment; supporting peer review and co-production of feedback artefacts. Each case study is divided into the context behind it, the strategy, practice, impact, and key learning outcomes, presenting a series of opportunities for practitioners to consider and embed in their practice.

Aimed at experienced and early career practitioners in higher education, as well as third space practitioners such as learning and educational developers and designer, this text is ideal reading for educators who wish to see evolution in higher education, using the lessons learned from utilising educational technology to focus on student learning in increasingly digital environments.