Discipline-related marking behaviour using percentages: A potential cause of inequity in assessment

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 285-300

  Bridges, Paul ^a   Bourdillon, Bernard ^b   Collymore, Debbie ^c   Cooper, Angela ^c   Fox, Wendy ^d   Haines, Chris ^e   Turner, David ^f   Woolf, Harvey ^c   Yorke, Mantz ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0006836424     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0260293990240303     Document Type: Article

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