A scholarly approach to solving the feedback dilemma in practice

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 938-949

  O’Donovan, Berry ^a   Rust, Chris ^a   Price, Margaret ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; feedback; student satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930988864     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2015.1052774     Document Type: Article

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