Optional self-assessment: Some tensions and dilemmas

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-147

  Leach, Linda ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

assessment; overrating; self assessment; student autonomy; underrating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863319737     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2010.515013     Document Type: Article

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