Feedback Practices at Work: Maximising Student Learning on Placements

“This insightful collection advances the field by examining feedback in the distinctive context of placements and workplace learning. It captures the realities in which students must navigate and actively shape their own feedback processes without consistent access to educators and in the absence of tightly integrated curricula. By combining scholarship with grounded practice, the volume offers a highly relevant account that will reshape how we think about feedback in workplace learning. An important and practical contribution to both scholarship and professional education.”

Liesbeth Baartman
Associate Professor of Vocational/Professional Education and Assessment
Utrecht University of Applied Sciences and Maastricht University, School of Health Professions Education

“Feedback Practices at Work: Maximizing Student Learning on Placements makes an important and novel contribution to the education literature. It offers a richly theorized and practically grounded contribution to contemporary understandings of feedback and learning in placement settings. It frames feedback as a socially, culturally, materially, and relationally embedded practice, moving well beyond narrow conceptions of information transmission. Its nuanced treatment of learner agency and feedback literacy equips readers to navigate complex, and sometimes imperfect, workplace contexts with reflexivity and confidence. By foregrounding relationships, materiality, and context, the book bridges theory and practice in ways that will resonate with educators, supervisors, and learners alike. I found this book to be an intellectually rigorous and timely work that significantly advances scholarship and practice in work-based feedback. I’ve assigned it a prominent place in my library.”

Lara VarpioProfessor of PediatricsThe Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Molloyis Pro Vice Chancellor (Curriculum) at The University of Melbourne where she is helping to shape innovative curriculum with the help of evidence. She is also Professor in workplace learning in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, researching feedback, workplace learning, assessment and interprofessional education.

David Boudis Deakin Distinguished Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia. He has been a pioneer in developing learning-centred approaches to assessment and in changing conceptions of feedback. He is one of the most highly cited scholars in the field of higher education.