Exploring classroom assessment practices: The case of teachers of English as a foreign language

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-204

  Inbar Lourie, Ofra ^a   Donitsa Schmidt, Smadar ^b  

^a BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b Kibbutzim College of Education   (Israel)

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EID: 83455267453     PISSN: 0969594X     EISSN: 1465329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09695940903075958     Document Type: Article

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