Difficult decisions for progress testing: How much and how often

Medical Teacher

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 513-515

  Ricketts, Chris ^a   Freeman, Adrian ^a   Pagliuca, Giovanni ^a   Coombes, Lee ^a   Archer, Julian ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77953144086     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2010.485651     Document Type: Article

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