Formative assessment at the crossroads: Conformative, deformative and transformative assessment

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 323-342

  Torrance, Harry ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

divergent assessment; formative assessment; higher education; socio cultural theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863329274     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2012.689693     Document Type: Review

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