Assessment for learning in the accountability era: Queensland, Australia

Studies in Educational Evaluation

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-83

  Klenowski, Val ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accountability; Judgement and moderation; School based assessment; Standards; Teacher based assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955959365     PISSN: 0191491X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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