Final year accounting undergraduates' attitudes to group assessment and the role of learning logs

Accounting Education

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-183

  Ballantine, Joan A ^a   Larres, Patricia Mccourt ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic ability; attitudes; cooperative learning; Group assessment; learning log; students'

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955562788     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280701234419     Document Type: Article

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