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12 - Feedback in Tertiary Education

Challenges and Opportunities for Enhancing Current Practices

from Part II - Domain-Specific Feedback

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2018

By
Jacques van der Meer  and
Phillip Dawson
Edited by
Anastasiya A. Lipnevich  and
Jeffrey K. Smith
Anastasiya A. Lipnevich
Affiliation:
Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Jeffrey K. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Otago, New Zealand
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The Cambridge Handbook of Instructional Feedback , pp. 264 - 288
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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