Assessment and the quality or educational programmes: What constitutes evidence?

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-112

  Shay, Suellen ^a,b   Jawitz, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Academic Staff Development Group   (United Kingdom)

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