Dancing with the devil: formative peer assessment and academic performance

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 646-659

  Snowball, Jen D ^a   Mostert, Markus ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

academic outcomes; impact; large classes; online; peer assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880040881     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2012.705262     Document Type: Article

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