Effectively feeding forward from one written assessment task to the next

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 599-610

  Vardi, Iris ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

feed forward; feedback; written assessments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878640702     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2012.670197     Document Type: Article

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