Formative Assessment and Feedback in Post-Digital Learning Environments

Disciplinary Case Studies in Higher Education

Sam Elkington, Alastair Irons

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040330883
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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 and 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the editors
• Meet the case study contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Formative assessment and feedback in post-digital higher education
• 3 Creating a formative-feedback trialogue by embedding an e-learning theory package into undergraduate music education
• 4 Reflective writing online as a powerful formative assessment tool in teacher leadership development
• 5 Developing student employability through formative assessment and virtual project learning in the social science curriculum
• 6 Using formative feedback to scaffold and manage student wellbeing in an accelerated online research course
• 7 Promoting situated change towards sustainability and climate action through post-digital online distance learning pedagogy
• 8 Conversations in context: reframing assessment for international trainee teachers
• 9 Formative and summative assessment rubrics for a UK postgraduate taught education studies module
• 10 Implementing ipsative feedback through interconnected tasks and comparison processes in a direct-entry program
• 11 An online peer assessment tool for embedding authentic feedback literacy in students studying creative subjects
• 12 Integrating scaffolding instructional strategy through digital tools for improving academic performance among undergraduate finance students
• 13 Developing an experiential formative assessment activity with the GIST framework
• 14 Formative feedback for international supply chain post-graduate students combining digital and face-to-face formats to enhance engagement and criticality
• 15 Meet Zara: An AI-generated teaching assistant for enhancing formative assessment and self-regulated learning
• 16 Creating an academic safety net for newly inducted undergraduate medical students using formative assessments and feedback
• 17 Using e-portfolios and video reflections to support postgraduate students’ personal and professional development
• 18 Using digital multisource feedback to provide medical students with formative feedback on their workplace behaviour and professional progress
• 19 Formatively assessing competency in practical skills in the biological sciences through direct observations and oral feedback
• 20 Embedding formative assessment in the flipped statistics classroom
• 21 Embedding formative feedback through differentiated instruction using Microsoft OneNote class notebooks
• 22 Scaling up and automating formative assessment in computer science
• 23 A data-driven approach to student support using formative feedback and targeted interventions
• 24 Beyond the unit: A course-wide, iterative formative assessment and feedback framework for enhancing learning and employability skills in computer science education
• 25 Formative diagnostics for student transitions and success through personalised guidance
• 26 Using an ongoing formative feedback approach to support early career academics make progress towards their end point assessment
• 27 Reimagining formative assessment and feedback: propositions for practice
• References
• Index