The futility of attempting to codify academic achievement standards

Higher Education

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 273-288

  Royce Sadler, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic standards; Achievement; Codification; Comparability; Grading; Quality assurance; Rubrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893929849     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9649-1     Document Type: Article

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