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Jacobs, Kevin (2021)

Cultural Differences in Written Feedback in Higher Education between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Bachelor thesis | Engelse taal en cultuur (BA)

This research analyzed articles that focus on feedback in higher education, which were three of the main articles from The Cambridge Handbook of Instructional feedback; Peer Assessment Training in Teacher Education: Effects on performance and perceptions by Sluijsman, Brand-Gruwel and van Merriënboer (2002); and The Impact of Formative Peer Feedback on Higher Education Students’ Academic Writing: a Meta-Analysis by Bart Huisman, Nadira Saab, Paul van den Broek and Jan van Driel (2019). These texts are juxtaposed with the theoretical works on cultural differences by Erin Meyer (2016), and Geert Hofstede (2005), which will lead to the establishing of what cultural tendencies are influencing these approaches. These findings are then discussed to provide possible solutions to negate such differences in order to improve cross-cultural interactions in terms of written feedback in the higher educational setting.

Written Feedback

Higher Education

Cultural Differences

Netherlands

United Kingdom

Author

Jacobs, Kevin

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Jeffery, J.V.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en