Improving the effectiveness of peer feedback for learning

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 304-315

  Gielen, Sarah ^a   Peeters, Elien ^a   Dochy, Filip ^a   Onghena, Patrick ^a   Struyven, Katrien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Feedback accuracy; Peer assessment; Peer feedback; Revision; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949875444     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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