Development and validation of an instrument to assess secondary school students' perceptions of assessment tasks

Educational Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-58

  Dorman, Jeffrey P ^a   Knightley, Wendy M ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Student perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244483156     PISSN: 03055698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03055690500415951     Document Type: Article

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