Learner-focused evaluation cycles: Facilitating learning using feedforward, concurrent and feedback evaluation

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 790-802

  Cathcart, Abby ^a   Greer, Dominique ^a   Neale, Larry ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

agile teaching and learning; assessment; concurrent evaluation; evaluation; feedback; feedforward; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905867558     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2013.870969     Document Type: Article

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