More on How Students Do and Don’t Use Feedback

It's not the first time we've addressed the issue: why don't students use our feedback to improve their performance (their writing, their exams, their professional skills)? A revisit is justified because it's such an important question and because answers are more elusive than we might expect. However, good resources can be helpful, and the one referenced here falls into that category.

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