Assessing Students in Community Settings: The Role of Peer Evaluation

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-13

  Magzoub, Mohi Eldest M A ^a,c   Schmidt, Henk G ^b   Dolmans, Diana H J M ^b   Abdelhameed, Ahmed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Faculty of Medicine   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Peer evaluation; Reliability; Student assessment; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344332535     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009786129941     Document Type: Article

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