Assessment engineering: Breaking down barriers between teaching and learning, and assessment

Rethinking Assessment in Higher Education: Learning for the Longer Term

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 87-100

  Dochy, Filip ^a   Segers, Mien ^b   Gijbels, David ^c   Struyven, Katrien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 79955568181     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203964309     Document Type: Chapter

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