‘My work is bleeding’: exploring students’ emotional responses to first-year assignment feedback

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 614-624

  Shields, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anxiety; confidence; emotions; feedback; first year student

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940459165     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2015.1052786     Document Type: Article

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