Feedback Learning Benefits and Issues in Education

Authors

  • Rahman Abdullah UiTM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14738/abr.810.9286

Abstract

Feedback learning poses many benefits to the education system, however, in executing feedback learning in order to gain better assessment and learning processes both for the students and lecturers, the challenges are big and daunting for many universities. This paper discusses the benefits and issues in Feedback Learning related to the learning processes and assessment measures.

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Published

2020-11-08

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Abdullah, R. (2020). Feedback Learning Benefits and Issues in Education . Archives of Business Research, 8(10), 162–166. https://doi.org/10.14738/abr.810.9286