Assessing levels of student understanding in pre-service teachers using a two-cycle SOLO model

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 283-293

  Dudley, Dean ^a   Baxter, David ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

High stakes examination; SOLO taxonomy; Teaching Games for Understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549112988     PISSN: 1359866X     EISSN: 14692945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13598660903052282     Document Type: Article

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