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Date |
2015 |
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repository |
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p1469297X |
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abstract |
In UK higher education, the attainment of ethnic minority students is lower than that
of white students, and this remains the case when differences in entry qualifications
have been taken into account. The present study investigated whether the under-attainment
of ethnic minority students might be due to the nature of the feedback that they received
for their assignments. The assignments submitted by 470 ethnic minority and 470 matched
white students taking a distance learning course were compared using a computer system,
Open Mentor, to categorise the feedback given by tutors based on a scheme devised
by Bales. Asian and black students and students of mixed ethnicity obtained lower
marks for their assignments than did the white students. However, there were only
small differences between the ethnic minority students and the white students in terms
of the pattern of feedback that they received, and these disappeared when the marks
that they had received for their assignments had been taken into account. It is concluded
that students from all ethnic groups received feedback that was commensurate with
their marks, and that the origins of the attainment gap in ethnic minority students
in UK higher education must be sought elsewhere. |
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authors |
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issue |
4 |
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peerReviewed |
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volume |
40 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Richardson, John T. E. ; Alden Rivers, Bethany and Whitelock, Denise (2015). The
role of feedback in the under-attainment of ethnic minority students: evidence from
distance education. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 40(4) pp. 557–573. |
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label |
Richardson, John T. E. ; Alden Rivers, Bethany and Whitelock, Denise (2015).
The role of feedback in the under-attainment of ethnic minority students: evidence
from distance education. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 40(4) pp. 557–573.
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Title |
The role of feedback in the under-attainment of ethnic minority students: evidence
from distance education |
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in dataset |
oro |