First-year undergraduate students’ perceptions of lecturer and peer feedback: a New Zealand action research project

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 933-944

  Barnard, Roger ^a   de Luca, Rosemary ^a   Li, Jinrui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

academic writing; collaborative action research; formative feedback; New Zealand; peer review; undergraduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928587238     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2014.881343     Document Type: Article

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