Assessment criteria: Reflections on current practices

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 479-493

  Woolf, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 28244461832     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602930310001689046     Document Type: Review

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