The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: a large-scale study of students' learning in response to different programme assessment patterns

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-88

  Jessop, Tansy ^a   El Hakim, Yassein ^a   Gibbs, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

formative; modular; programme assessment; student learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890352144     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2013.792108     Document Type: Article

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