Students' Approaches to assessment in accounting education: The unique student perspective

Accounting Education

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 219-234

  Watty, Kim ^a   Jackson, Margaret ^b   Yu, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting education; Assessment; Communication skills; Intercultural classroom; Student approaches to learning (SAL)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959973004     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280902836939     Document Type: Article

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