Teacher assessment literacy in practice: A reconceptualization

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 149-162

  Xu, Yueting ^a   Brown, Gavin T L ^b  

^a GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Reconceptualization; Teacher assessment literacy; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969822576     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2016.05.010     Document Type: Article

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