Assessment practices in scottish social work education: A practice audit of scottish universities providing qualifying social work courses

Social Work Education

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 693-711

  Lister, Pam Green ^a   Dutton, Kathryn ^b   Crisp, Beth R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Assessment Methods; Assessment Strategies; Practice Audit; Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249850731     PISSN: 02615479     EISSN: 14701227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02615470500185135     Document Type: Article

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