Student engagement with assessment and feedback: Some lessons from short-answer free-text e-assessment questions

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 818-834

  Jordan, Sally ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult learning; Distance education and telelearning; Evaluation of CAL systems; Human computer interface

Indexed keywords

ADULT LEARNING; DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TELELEARNING; EVALUATION OF CAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; SOCIAL ACTORS; STUDENT ENGAGEMENT;

DISTANCE EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; RATING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 81855207251     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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