Do accounting students believe in self-assessment?

Accounting Education

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 291-305

  Hill, Tanya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

accounting education; accounting students; formative assessment; Reflective learning; self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976332588     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2016.1191271     Document Type: Article

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