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Social Sciences and Humanities
Australia
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
98
Citations
60817
World Ranking
104
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award

Overview

David Boud is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and conducts research primarily within the social sciences, with a specialized focus on education. Their research output notably spans various subfields including education, information systems, management science and operations research, developmental and educational psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health. The predominant topics in David Boud's body of work center on student assessment and feedback, reflective practices in education, evaluation of teaching practices, higher education learning practices, higher education practices and engagement, evaluation and performance assessment, as well as innovations in medical education.

David Boud has contributed extensively to academic journals, with a frequent presence in publication venues such as:

  • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
  • Studies in Higher Education
  • Teaching in Higher Education
  • Higher Education
  • Higher Education Research & Development

Among the most recent papers authored by or involving David Boud are:

  • What feedback literate teachers do: an empirically-derived competency framework (2021), published in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
  • The need to disentangle assessment and feedback in higher education (2020), published in Studies in Higher Education
  • Eliciting, processing and enacting feedback: mechanisms for embedding student feedback literacy within the curriculum (2020), published in Teaching in Higher Education
  • The post-COVID-19 future of digital learning in higher education: Views from educators, students, and other professionals in six countries (2022), published in British Journal of Educational Technology
  • Understanding feedback in online learning - A critical review and metaphor analysis (2021), published in Computers & Education

David Boud has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Margaret Bearman
  • Joanna Tai
  • Phillip Dawson
  • Rola Ajjawi
  • Zi Yan

Their book publications include a title released by Springer Nature (Netherlands):

  • Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World (2020)

David Boud's research contributions reflect a broad and detailed examination of educational practices, with a significant emphasis on feedback and assessment processes in higher education contexts.

Best Publications

  • Reflection, turning experience into learning

    David Boud;Rosemary Keogh;David Walker

  • The Challenge of Problem Based Learning

    David Boud;Grahame Feletti

  • Sustainable Assessment: Rethinking Assessment for the Learning Society.

    David Boud

  • Enhancing learning through self assessment

    David Boud

  • The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback

    David Carless;David Boud

  • Rethinking models of feedback for learning: the challenge of design

    David Boud;Elizabeth Katherine Molloy

  • Aligning assessment with long‐term learning

    David Boud;Nancy Falchikov

  • Peer Learning and Assessment

    David Boud;Ruth Cohen;Jane Sampson

  • Developing Student Autonomy in Learning

    David Boud

  • Promoting reflection in professional courses: The challenge of context

    David Boud;David Walker

  • Using Experience For Learning

    David Boud

  • Using Journal Writing to Enhance Reflective Practice

    David Boud

  • Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis

    Nancy Falchikov;David Boud

  • Rethinking assessment in higher education : learning for the longer term

    David Boud;Nancy Falchikov

  • Quantitative Studies of Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Findings.

    David Boud;Nancy Falchikov

  • Learning from others at work: communities of practice and informal learning

    David Boud;Heather Middleton

  • Assessment and learning: contradictory or complementary?

    David Boud

  • Peer Learning in Higher Education : Learning from and with Each Other

    David Boud;Ruth Cohen;Jane Sampson

  • Work-based learning: a new higher education?

    David Boud;Nicky Solomon

  • Understanding learning at work

    David Boud;John Garrick

  • Promoting reflection in learning: A model

    David Boud;Rosemary Keogh;David Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Molloy
Elizabeth Molloy University of Melbourne
Sue Bennett
Sue Bennett University of Wollongong
Ernesto Panadero
Ernesto Panadero Dublin City University
Martine B. Powell
Martine B. Powell Griffith University
Catherine Manathunga
Catherine Manathunga University of the Sunshine Coast
Paul Hager
Paul Hager University of Technology Sydney
David Carless
David Carless University of Hong Kong
Michael Prosser
Michael Prosser University of Melbourne
Debra Nestel
Debra Nestel Monash University
Joy Higgs
Joy Higgs Charles Sturt University

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