Exploring new students' conceptions of engagement and feedback

Improving Student Engagement and Development through Assessment: Theory and practice in higher education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 32-44

  Foster, Ed ^a   McNeil, Jane ^a   Lawther, Sarah ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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