Hong Kong tertiary students' conceptions of assessment of academic ability

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1063-1077

  Wang, Zhenlin ^a   Brown, Gavin T L ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

assessment; international education; motivation; research methodologies; student experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919876092     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2014.890565     Document Type: Article

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