Assessing creativity using the consensual assessment technique

Handbook of Research on Assessment Technologies, Methods, and Applications in Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-77

  Baer, John ^a   McKool, Sharon S ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-667-9.ch004     Document Type: Chapter

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