Consulting pupils in Assessment for Learning classrooms: The twists and turns of working with students as co-researchers

Educational Action Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 459-478

  Leitch, Ruth ^a   Gardner, John ^a   Mitchell, Stephanie ^a   Lundy, Laura ^a   Odena, Oscar ^a   Galanouli, Despina ^a   Clough, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consultation; Qualitative methods; Second order action research; Students as researchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548308927     PISSN: 09650792     EISSN: 17475074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09650790701514887     Document Type: Article

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