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Student Assessment and Feedback

Student Assessment and Feedback is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on formative assessment, feedback practices, and their impact on self-regulated learning in education. It explores topics such as peer assessment, assessment literacy, rubrics, student and teacher perceptions, and the influence of feedback on learning outcomes.

  • Formative Assessment
  • Feedback
  • Self-regulated Learning
  • Peer Assessment
  • Assessment Literacy
  • Rubrics
  • Student Perception
  • Teacher Practice
  • Learning Outcomes
  • Educational Research
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Student Assessment and Feedback

Which countries lead Student Assessment and Feedback research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (879 and 434 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 879 works
  2. 2 China 434 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 295 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 205 works
  5. 5 Australia 198 works
  6. 6 Canada 137 works
  7. 7 Germany 122 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 122 works
  9. 9 India 109 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 105 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 33.7%China: 16.6%United Kingdom: 11.3%Indonesia: 7.9%6 others listed: 30.5%34%largest
United States879 · 33.7%China434 · 16.6%United Kingdom295 · 11.3%Indonesia205 · 7.9%6 others listed794 · 30.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Student Assessment and Feedback research?

By volume in 2022-now, Education University of Hong Kong publishes the most Student Assessment and Feedback research, followed by University of Auckland and University of Hong Kong.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Education University of Hong KongChina 28 works
  2. 2 University of AucklandNew Zealand 21 works
  3. 3 University of Hong KongChina 21 works
  4. 4 The University of MelbourneAustralia 20 works
  5. 5 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 20 works
  6. 6 Monash UniversityAustralia 18 works
  7. 7 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 18 works
  8. 8 Deakin UniversityAustralia 18 works
  9. 9 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 16 works
  10. 10 UNSW SydneyAustralia 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Student Assessment and Feedback?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Student Assessment and Feedback include Mark Damian Griffiths and Herbert W. Marsh.

  1. 1 Mark Damian Griffiths United Kingdom 133k citations
  2. 2 Herbert W. Marsh Australia 128k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Student Assessment and Feedback?

The most cited paper in Student Assessment and Feedback is "The Power of Feedback" (John Hattie, Helen S. Timperley, 2007), with 12,703 citations. Next come "Assessment and Classroom Learning" (7,901) and "Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice" (5,748).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Power of Feedback John Hattie, Helen S. Timperley · Review of Educational Research Open access Mar 2007 12,703
2 Assessment and Classroom Learning Paul J Black, Dylan Wiliam · Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice Mar 1998 7,901
3 Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice David Nicol, Debra Macfarlane‐Dick · Studies in Higher Education 21 Mar 2006 5,748
4 Focus on Formative Feedback Valerie J. Shute · Review of Educational Research Open access 25 Feb 2008 4,420
5 Formative assessment and the design of instructional systems D. Royce Sadler · Instructional Science Jun 1989 4,252
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Student Assessment and Feedback research done?

The largest centres of Student Assessment and Feedback research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Melbourne (Australia) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tai Po.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 59 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 50 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 49 works
  4. 4 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 39 works
  5. 5 Hong KongChina 37 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 35 works
  7. 7 SingaporeSingapore 33 works
  8. 8 Tai PoChina 29 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 28 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai PoCN · 28.6 works43×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Student Assessment and Feedback than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Student Assessment and Feedback?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Education University of Hong Kong and University of Auckland score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 26.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…Deakin UniversityEducation University…University of Auckland
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Hong KongChina 89.239.5%5.9×21 +19.8%
2Education University of Hong KongChina 80.028.9%52.2×28 +3.1%
3University of AucklandNew Zealand 69.516.8%10.4×22 +33.0%
4Deakin UniversityAustralia 67.035.5%10.5×18 -35.8%
5Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 66.322.8%6.0×18 +37.3%
6The University of MelbourneAustralia 65.919.0%4.8×20 +26.8%
7Monash UniversityAustralia 64.832.4%4.9×18 -3.6%
8University of MacauChina 63.123.6%11.4×14 -12.4%
9Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 61.830.3%4.1×13 +6.1%
10Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 48.713.5%4.0×11 +28.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Student Assessment and Feedback, country by country

Is Student Assessment and Feedback research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Student Assessment and Feedback.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Student Assessment and Feedback as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Student Assessment and Feedback0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Student Assessment and Feedback over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Student Assessment and Feedback10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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