Improving performance through enhancing student understanding of criteria and feedback

Innovative Assessment in Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 100-109

  Price, Margaret ^a   O'Donovan, Berry ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203969670     Document Type: Chapter

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