The impact of formative feedback on the development of academic writing

This paper presents a small‐scale exploratory study, which focuses on the impact of formative assessment that was provided as part of a writing intervention in a first‐year undergraduate programme. Qualitative data were collected to find evidence of use of formative feedback, and of resulting improvements, as well as to shed some light on students’ inclination to use feedback. Uptake and use of the formative feedback was assessed by an analysis...