Real or imagined?: The shift from norm referencing to criterion referencing in higher education

Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 133-143

  Orr, Susan ^a  

^a YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203942185     Document Type: Chapter

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