Examining teacher ethical dilemmas in classroom assessment

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 778-782

  Pope, Nakia ^a   Green, Susan K ^a   Johnson, Robert L ^b   Mitchell, Mark ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom assessment; Ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349203556     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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