The current emphasis on higher order thinking skills (HOTS) has inspired many EFL educators to explore the impact of merging different pedagogical teaching and assessment strategies on the enhancement of thinking skills. Responding to such a growing need to investigate the effect of diverse teaching strategies on HOTS, the present study aimed to explore the impact of the integration of portfoli...

The feedback analytics of online software including Articulate and Bristol Online Surveys can be used to facilitate dialogic learning in a community of practice such as Pharmacy and, thereby, promote reflective learning by the creation of formative calibrated feedback loops. Based on work with medical, dental, nursing, osteopathic, and social work students, trainees, and registrants, the paper ...

Introduction: The focus of feedback in medical education recently shifted to a dialogic partnership between teachers and learners, co-creating effective exchanges. We previously described prototype, longitudinal 4-year curriculum for students develop feedback-seeking behaviors. explored the students’ experiences as participants this novel program.

Question-answer (Q&A) is fundamental for dialogic instruction, an important pedagogical technique based on the free exchange of ideas and open-ended discussion. Automatically detecting Q&A is key to providing teachers with feedback on appropriate use of dialogic instructional strategies. In line with this, this paper studies the possibility of automatically detecting segments of Q&A in live cla...

Despite the importance of feedback uptake in higher education, there is still much to be learned about supporting it. Recent perspectives hold that guiding learners through uptake-oriented activities may also help them develop literacy. However, due acceleration digitisation trends an increasing need explore and literacy development exploiting opportunities offered by digital environments. This...

Feedback is a dialogic process in which diverse individuals are involved. In internationalised higher education, with different feedback literacies likely to participate dialogues and interactions across cultures. Such intercultural can be challenging; some degree of competence needed for between cultures effective appropriate all This paper brings together research, exploring whether developin...

Assessment task design plays a major role in influencing how students engage with their studies. This paper uses a case study approach to explore the assessment practice of five award-winning teachers across five different disciplines. The research method involved ethnographically-oriented classroom observations and multiple interviews with participants. Four key features of assessment task des...