Conceptual acrobatics: talking about assessment standards in the transparency era

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1309-1323

  Hudson, Jane ^a   Bloxham, Sue ^b   den Outer, Birgit ^a   Price, Margaret ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment standards; external examiners; learning outcomes; marking; situational analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945208172     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1092130     Document Type: Article

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