The Next Black Box of Formative Assessment: A Model of the Internal Mechanisms of Feedback Processing

• DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.751548
• Publication Date: 2022-02-15T05:35:24Z
• Authors: Angela M. Lui; Heidi L. Andrade
• Keywords: Internal model; Black box; Negative feedback; Empirical Research

In this theoretical paper, we shift the attention from feedback as something given to received . After Black and Wiliam shined a light into black box of classroom identified formative assessment way raise standards achievement, large body research revealed influence on learning. Not all such influences were positive, however, which created need for closer examinations nature feedback. addition, recent scholarship co-regulation learning reveals importance understanding how students process use We present model internal mechanisms processing that represents hypothesized ways in initial motivational states drive respond feedback, well cognitive affective information processing. first synthesize review existing models then describe our detail, emphasizing processing: states, emotions elicited by interpretations decision-making. The paper concludes with implications model’s framework empirical studies could contribute nascent field