How a formative self-assessment programme positively influenced examination performance in financial mathematics

Self or formative assessment are terms that, linked to feedback, appear in the literature associated with initiatives aimed at improving the learning process in higher education. Some studies have highlighted the peculiarities of the feedback techniques targeted towards first-year undergraduates, in subjects with a large number of students, or which are taught by a large number of lecturers. This study presents a formative self-assessment...