Assessment is learning: the preposition vanishes

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-43

  Hayward, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; formative; learning; national innovation; system level change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922109071     PISSN: 0969594X     EISSN: 1465329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0969594X.2014.984656     Document Type: Article

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