Students' views of assessment in project-led engineering education: Findings from a case study in Portugal

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 163-178

  Fernandes, Sandra ^a   Flores, Maria Assunção ^a   Lima, Rui Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

assessment; higher education; project based learning; students' perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863308291     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2010.515015     Document Type: Article

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