The Impact of a Flexible Assessment System on Students' Motivation, Performance and Attitude

Accounting Education

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-167

  Pacharn, Parunchana ^a   Bay, Darlene ^a   Felton, Sandra ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flexible grading; motivation; MSLQ; self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876976829     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2013.765292     Document Type: Article

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