Asttle - A national testing system for formative assessment: How the national testing policy ended up helping schools and teachers

Advances in Program Evaluation

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-56

  Brown, Gavin T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84901411362     PISSN: 14747863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1474-7863(2013)0000014003     Document Type: Article

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