Group learning assessment: Developing a theory-informed analytics

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 110-128

  Xing, Wanli ^a   Wadholm, Robert ^a   Petakovic, Eva ^a   Goggins, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Assessment; Automation; Cluster analysis; CSCL

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930371883     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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