Illustrating assessment: How Hong Kong university students conceive of the purposes of assessment

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1037-1057

  Brown, Gavin T L ^a   Wang, Zhenlin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

academic performance; assessment; attitude; cultural studies; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882610892     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2011.616955     Document Type: Article

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