Beyond 'doing time': Investigating the concept of student engagement with feedback

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 543-560

  Handley, Karen ^a   Price, Margaret ^a   Millar, Jill ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Engagement; Feedback; Research methods; Student experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052230630     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2011.604951     Document Type: Article

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