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IMPACT OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK ON HIGHER EDUCATION

34 Pages : 498-514

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).34      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).34      Published : Dec 4

Impact of Formative Assessment and Feedback on Higher Education

    This research study is based on the literature review through documentary analysis. In this study it is aimed to find out the impact of formative and feedback assessment in Higher Education in Pakistan. Assessment is a key role to enhance both teaching and learning and is needed in assuring the nature of training development, including analytic testing, strategies are related to formal and no formal assessment strategies directed by teachers amid the learning procedure with the end goal to adjust educating and learning exercises to enhance understudy achievement. Input is the best apparatus when started by the understudy, related to self and associate to assessment. The study was discussed in detail through theoretical framework on nature formative feedback and formative assessment. It is well up to the mark and standard policy documented about the assessment that has a great influence on the teaching and learning process.

    Formative Assessment, Feedback, Higher Education.
    (1) Muhammad Naseer Ud Din
    Associate Professor,Institute of Education & Research,Kohat University of Science & Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Waqar Un Nisa Faizi
    Assistant Professor, Department of Education,Islamia College Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Abdul Majeed Khan
    Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Din, Muhammad Naseer Ud, Waqar Un Nisa Faizi, and Abdul Majeed Khan. 2018. "Impact of Formative Assessment and Feedback on Higher Education." Global Social Sciences Review, III (IV): 498-514 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).34
    HARVARD : DIN, M. N. U., FAIZI, W. U. N. & KHAN, A. M. 2018. Impact of Formative Assessment and Feedback on Higher Education. Global Social Sciences Review, III, 498-514.
    MHRA : Din, Muhammad Naseer Ud, Waqar Un Nisa Faizi, and Abdul Majeed Khan. 2018. "Impact of Formative Assessment and Feedback on Higher Education." Global Social Sciences Review, III: 498-514
    MLA : Din, Muhammad Naseer Ud, Waqar Un Nisa Faizi, and Abdul Majeed Khan. "Impact of Formative Assessment and Feedback on Higher Education." Global Social Sciences Review, III.IV (2018): 498-514 Print.
    OXFORD : Din, Muhammad Naseer Ud, Faizi, Waqar Un Nisa, and Khan, Abdul Majeed (2018), "Impact of Formative Assessment and Feedback on Higher Education", Global Social Sciences Review, III (IV), 498-514
    TURABIAN : Din, Muhammad Naseer Ud, Waqar Un Nisa Faizi, and Abdul Majeed Khan. "Impact of Formative Assessment and Feedback on Higher Education." Global Social Sciences Review III, no. IV (2018): 498-514. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).34