Formative assessment: A meta-analysis and a call for research

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 28-37

  Kingston, Neal ^a   Nash, Brooke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Formative assessment; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255163139     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2011.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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