Ethics in classroom assessment practices: Issues and attitudes

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 999-1011

  Green, Susan K ^a   Johnson, Robert L ^b   Kim, Do Hong ^c   Pope, Nakia S ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom assessment; Ethics; Evaluation methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447545919     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2006.04.042     Document Type: Article

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