Students' perceptions of fairness in peer assessment: evidence from a problem-based learning course

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 491-505

  Carvalho, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

assessment biases; cluster analysis; fairness; peer assessment; student perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881670390     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2012.753051     Document Type: Article

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