60-Second SoTL – Episode 47

This episode shares an open-access article from Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education and explores how to measure feedback literacy in higher education:

Dawson, Phillip, Zi Yan, Anastasiya Lipnevich, Joanna Tai, David Boud, and Paige Mahoney. 2023. “Measuring What Learners Do in Feedback: The Feedback Literacy Behaviour Scale.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2240983

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This episode was hosted by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric. 60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University.

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