David Boud

40.9k total citations · 26 hit papers
277 papers, 23.6k citations indexed

About

David Boud is a scholar working on Education, Human Factors and Ergonomics and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Boud has authored 277 papers receiving a total of 23.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 198 papers in Education, 32 papers in Human Factors and Ergonomics and 20 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Boud's work include Student Assessment and Feedback (92 papers), Reflective Practices in Education (77 papers) and Evaluation of Teaching Practices (61 papers). David Boud is often cited by papers focused on Student Assessment and Feedback (92 papers), Reflective Practices in Education (77 papers) and Evaluation of Teaching Practices (61 papers). David Boud collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. David Boud's co-authors include Nancy Falchikov, Rosemary J. Keogh, David Walker, Elizabeth Molloy, David Carless, David Walker, Jane Sampson, Phillip Dawson, Ruth Cohen and Rola Ajjawi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computers & Education and Review of Educational Research.

In The Last Decade

David Boud

265 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

Reflection, turning experience into learning 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 2018 2000 2012 2006 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Reflection, turning experience into learning
    1985 2.7k citations David Boud et al. profile →
  2. The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback
    2018 1.1k citations David Carless, David Boud Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  3. Sustainable Assessment: Rethinking assessment for the learning society
    2000 963 citations David Boud profile →
  4. Rethinking models of feedback for learning: the challenge of design
    2012 955 citations David Boud et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  5. Aligning assessment with long‐term learning
    2006 764 citations David Boud et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  6. Peer Learning and Assessment
    1999 695 citations David Boud et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  7. Promoting reflection in professional courses: The challenge of context
    1998 588 citations David Boud et al. Studies in Higher Education profile →
  8. Using Experience For Learning
    1993 510 citations David Boud profile →
  9. Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis
    1989 506 citations David Boud et al. profile →
  10. Quantitative studies of student self-assessment in higher education: a critical analysis of findings
    1989 440 citations David Boud et al. Higher Education profile →
  11. Using journal writing to enhance reflective practice
    2001 433 citations David Boud profile →
  12. Developing evaluative judgement: enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work
    2017 403 citations Joanna Tai, Rola Ajjawi et al. Higher Education profile →
  13. The Challenge of Problem-based Learning
    2013 395 citations David Boud et al. profile →
  14. Sustainable assessment revisited
    2015 323 citations David Boud et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  15. Peer Learning in Higher Education : Learning from and with Each Other
    2014 314 citations David Boud et al. Deakin Research Online (Deakin University) profile →
  16. What makes for effective feedback: staff and student perspectives
    2018 301 citations Phillip Dawson, Paige Mahoney et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  17. Enhancing Learning Through Self-assessment
    2013 297 citations David Boud profile →
  18. Developing a learning-centred framework for feedback literacy
    2019 292 citations David Boud et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  19. Promoting reflection in learning: A model
    2013 231 citations David Boud et al. profile →
  20. The need to disentangle assessment and feedback in higher education
    2020 147 citations Naomi Winstone, David Boud Studies in Higher Education profile →
  21. Conditions that enable effective feedback
    2019 133 citations David Boud, Phillip Dawson et al. Higher Education Research & Development profile →
  22. Eliciting, processing and enacting feedback: mechanisms for embedding student feedback literacy within the curriculum
    2020 130 citations David Boud, David Carless et al. Teaching in Higher Education profile →
  23. What feedback literate teachers do: an empirically-derived competency framework
    2021 110 citations David Boud, Phillip Dawson Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  24. The post‐COVID‐19 future of digital learning in higher education: Views from educators, students, and other professionals in six countries
    2022 88 citations David Boud, Joanna Tai et al. profile →
  25. Developing evaluative judgement for a time of generative artificial intelligence
    2024 56 citations Margaret Bearman, Joanna Tai et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →
  26. Can students’ feedback literacy be improved? A scoping review of interventions
    2023 48 citations Phillip Dawson, David Boud et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →

Peers

David Boud
Comparison fields: 5 of 175
  • Education 17.7k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 3.3k
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2.9k
  • General Health Professions 2.2k
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics 1.5k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Generative artificial intelligence as an enabler of student feedback engagement: a framework
2025 ·Higher Education Research & Development ·Ying Zhan, David Boud, Phillip Dawson, Zi Yan
8
2
Self-assessment design in a digital world: centring student agency
2025 ·Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education ·Juuso Henrik Nieminen, Zi Yan, David Boud
3
3
Do well-regarded university teachers exhibit feedback literacy? Examining the validity of a competency framework
2025 ·Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David Boud, Ole Eggers Bjælde, Kenan Dikilitaş, (unknown), Robert Gray, (unknown), Peter Musaeus, Christopher Neil Prilop, Arild Raaheim, Monica A. Sundset, Camilla Svensen
0
4
A comparative analysis of the skilled use of automated feedback tools through the lens of teacher feedback literacy
2023 ·International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education ·Simon Buckingham Shum, Lisa-Angelique Lim, David Boud, Margaret Bearman, Phillip Dawson
13
5
Exploring the roles of academic self-concept and perseverance of effort in self-assessment practices
2023 ·Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice ·Lan Yang, Zi Yan, (unknown), David Boud, Jesus Alfonso D. Datu
14
6
The influence of self-assessment practices on online training for investigative interviewing skills
2023 ·Studies In Educational Evaluation ·Zi Yan, Sonja P. Brubacher, David Boud, Martine B. Powell
4
7
Measuring what learners do in feedback: the feedback literacy behaviour scale
2023 ·Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education ·Phillip Dawson, Zi Yan, Anastasiya A. Lipnevich, Joanna Tai, David Boud, Paige Mahoney
36
8
Digital ethnography in higher education teaching and learning—a methodological review
2022 ·Higher Education ·Lasse X Jensen, Margaret Bearman, David Boud, Flemming Konradsen
20
9
Creating and sustaining collaborative connections: tensions and enabling factors in joint international programme development
2022 ·Higher Education ·Gordon Joughin, Margaret Bearman, David Boud, (unknown), Chie Adachi
2
10
Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys
2021 ·Studies in Higher Education ·Naomi Winstone, Rola Ajjawi, Kim Dirkx, David Boud
37
11
The effect of self-assessment on academic performance and the role of explicitness: a meta-analysis
2021 ·Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education ·Zi Yan, (unknown), David Boud, (unknown)
45
12
Fostering student motivation and engagement with feedback through ipsative processes
2021 ·Teaching in Higher Education ·(unknown), David Boud
23
13
The quality of assessment tasks as a determinant of learning
2020 ·Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education ·María Soledad Ibarra Sáiz, Gregorio Rodríguez Gómez, David Boud
44
14
Developing student competence through peer assessment: the role of feedback, self-regulation and evaluative judgement
2020 ·Higher Education ·María Soledad Ibarra Sáiz, Gregorio Rodríguez Gómez, David Boud
76
15
Eliciting, processing and enacting feedback: mechanisms for embedding student feedback literacy within the curriculum breakdown →
2020 ·Teaching in Higher Education ·(unknown), David Boud, David Carless
130
16
Does the use of summative peer assessment in collaborative group work inhibit good judgement?
2018 ·Higher Education ·Bhavani Sridharan, Joanna Tai, David Boud
69
17
Reflective Teaching in Higher Education
2015 ·Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) ·Paul Ashwin, David Boud, Kelly Coate, Fiona Hallett, Elaine Keane, Kerri‐Lee Krause, Brenda Leibowitz, Iain MacLaren, Jan McArthur, Velda McCune, (unknown)
106
18
Reconceptualising academic work as professional practice: implications for academic development
2012 ·The International Journal for Academic Development ·David Boud, Angela Brew
133
19
Working out work: Integrated development practices in organizations
2009 ·Deakin Research Online (Deakin University) ·Clive Chappell, Hermine Scheeres, David Boud, Donna Rooney
5
20
Towards an Educational Technology of Laboratory Work.
1970 ·David Boud, (unknown)
4

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