Student Agency

Within the scope of digital assessment, student agency refers to students’ active and responsive involvement in both learning and assessment practices. As opposed to “lecturer driven, one-way transmission of feedback” (Pitt, Bearman, and Esterhazy, 2020), student agency implies that students are engaged in a dialogic process of looking for (rather than just receiving) feedback from different sources and at different times, crosscutting it with their own experience and context, and using it to make informed and independent choices regarding their learning. Described as reflective and action-oriented, it relies on formative and constructive feedback (upon which students can act on), moving beyond specific tasks.

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