Formative conceptions of assessment: Trainee teachers' thinking about assessment issues in English secondary schools

Teacher Development

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-186

  Taber, Keith S ^a   Riga, Fran ^a   Brindley, Sue ^a   Winterbottom, Mark ^a   Finney, John ^a   Fisher, Linda G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classroom assessment; Constructivism and teacher learning; Initial teacher education; Teacher conceptions; Teacher learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957962337     PISSN: 13664530     EISSN: 17475120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2011.571500     Document Type: Article

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