Chinese award-winning tutors’ perceptions and practices of classroom-based assessment

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1144-1158

  Zhou, Jiming ^a   Deneen, Christopher Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

award winning tutors; Chinese tertiary education; classroom based assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937799990     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2015.1066306     Document Type: Article

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