Technologies and the assessment of higher order outcomes: A snapshot of academic practice in curriculum alignment

Towards Learning and Instruction in Web 3.0: Advances in Cognitive and Educational Psychology

Volumn 9781461415398, Issue , 2012, Pages 109-121

  McNeill, Margot ^a   Gosper, Maree ^a   Hedberg, John ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1539-8_7     Document Type: Chapter

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