'Quit school and become a taxi driver': Reframing first-year students' expectations of assessment in a university environment

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 278-288

  Niven, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Academic literacy development; Formative assessment; Framing theory; Useable feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449175900     PISSN: 02582236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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