Subject benchmarking and the assessment of student learning

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 155-171

  Yorke, Mantz ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking, Assessment; Higher education; Learning; Performance criteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986043578     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684880210435921     Document Type: Article

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