Summative self-assessment in higher education: Implications of its counting towards the final mark

Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 789-812

  Tejeiro, Ricardo A ^a   Gómez Vallecillo, Jorge L ^a   Romero, Antonio F ^a   Pelegrina, Manuel ^b   Wallace, Agustín ^b   Emberley, Enrique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c Centro de Profesorado del Campo de Gibraltar   (Spain)

Author keywords

Education; Educational psychology; Learning; Self assessment; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866749284     PISSN: 16995880     EISSN: 16962095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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