Chapter 2: To Use Their Minds Well: Investigating New Forms of Student Assessment

Review of Research in Education

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 31-74

  Wolf, Dennie ^a   Bixby, Janet ^a   Glenn, John ^a   Gardner, Howard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.3102/0091732X017001031     Document Type: Article

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