'Getting traction': Enablers and barriers to implementing Assessment for Learning in secondary schools

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 347-364

  Hill, Mary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

assessment for learning; change management; organisational leadership; professional development; secondary schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860662674     PISSN: 0969594X     EISSN: 1465329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0969594X.2011.600247     Document Type: Article

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