Assessment and statistics education: Current challenges and directions

International Statistical Review

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-12

  Garfield, Joan B ^a   Iddo, Gal ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Assessment; Learning; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033116624     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.1999.tb00377.x     Document Type: Article

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