Assessment preferences and their relationship to learning strategies and orientations

Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-84

  Birenbaum, Menucha ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 25844469667     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1002985613176     Document Type: Article

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