A Note from the Editor

There are three articles in this issue that deal with student assessment and learning. One offers an interesting approach that has students writing and answering their own exam questions; another introduces the idea of feedforward, which provides feedback before rather than after learning; and a third challenges our conceptualization of feedback, suggesting that it's not something teachers should be doing for students but something self-regulating learners need to be able to do for themselves.

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