Impact and consequences of school-based assessment (SBA): Students' and parents' views of SBA in Hong Kong

Language Testing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-249

  Cheng, Liying ^a   Andrews, Stephen ^b   Yu, Ying ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

impact and consequences; school based assessment (SBA); students and parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954551811     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532210384253     Document Type: Article

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