Immediate Feedback and Opportunity to Revise Answers to Open-Ended Questions

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-35

  Attali, Yigal ^a   Powers, Don ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

feedback; open ended questions; reliability; revision; test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993748560     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164409332231     Document Type: Article

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