Making space for democracy through assessment and feedback in higher education: thoughts from an action research project in education studies

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 932-948

  McDonnell, Jane ^a   Curtis, Will ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; democracy; feedback; Freire; Ranci re

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926080998     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2013.879284     Document Type: Article

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