Formative assessment and the contemporary classroom: Synergies and tensions between research and practice

Canadian Journal of Education

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-255

  Volante, Louis ^a   Beckett, Danielle ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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