Can you increase teacher engagement with evaluation simply by improving the evaluation system?

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 286-300

  Moskal, Adon C M ^a   Stein, Sarah J ^a   Golding, Clinton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

engagement; socio technical approach; student evaluation; teacher perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955175630     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2015.1007838     Document Type: Article

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