Really tha't probably about roughly what goes down: Hesitancies and uncertainties in mathematics assessment interactions

Language and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 374-390

  Meaney, Tamsin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assessment; Language; Mathematics; Student differences; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750290671     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/le638.0     Document Type: Article

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