Marden NY, Ulman LG, Wilson FS, Velan GM. Online feedback assessments in physiology: effects on students’ learning experiences and outcomes. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 192–200, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00092.2012.—Online formative assessments have become increasingly popular; however, formal evidence supporting their educational benefits is limited. This study investigated the impact of online feedbac...

This paper reports on one aspect of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded project 'Scoping a vision of formative e-assessment', namely on cases of formative e-assessment developed iteratively with the UK education practitioner community. The project, which took place from June 2008 – January 2009, aimed to identify current theories and practices relating to formative assessment ...

Feedback is a type of formative assessment used to inform instruction and advance learning. Feedback serves as a mechanism to connect teaching and learning at the student level. Learners receive feedback, formally or informally, as they engage in learning experiences. Within the Leadership Institute for Teachers, a National Science Foundation funded research project, we are exploring feedback a...

One respected tradition in medical education holds that physicians should struggle to maintain sensibility, openness, and compassion in the face of strong contravening tendencies. However, today's medical education is structured around a more recent tradition, which maintains that physicians should struggle to develop emotional detachment as a prerequisite for objectivity. In this model, sensib...

Although the terms scale and scalable are often used in the context of Open Online Education (OOE), there is no clear definition about these concepts from an educational perspective on the course level. This paper critically discusses the origins of these concepts and provides a working definition for educational scalability. A heuristic framework, which integrates four common educational desig...

1 University of Aveiro / Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education Trainers (CIDTFF) (PORTUGAL)2 Polytechnic Institute Viseu Center for & Development Mathematics Applications (CIDMA), (PORTUGAL)

<span lang="EN-US">Feedback as the key component of formative assessment was studied extensively in context acquisition foreign language productive skills by different categories learners. Similarly, this paper aimed at investigation optimal design feedback loop teaching translation to undergraduate students. A mixed-methods research involved 40 sophomores Poltava University Economics and...