Assessment revisited: a review of research in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1008-1032

  Pereira, Diana ^a   Flores, Maria Assunção ^a   Niklasson, Laila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

assessment; Bologna process; higher education; learner centred assessment; teaching and learning process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932166237     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2015.1055233     Document Type: Article

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