Using games to make formative assessment fun in the academic library

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-42

  Broussard, Mary J Snyder ^a  

^a LYCOMING COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Formative assessment; Games; Library instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897672602     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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