Teachers’ approaches to classroom assessment: a large-scale survey

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 355-375

  DeLuca, Christopher ^a   Valiquette, Adelina ^a   Coombs, Andrew ^a   LaPointe McEwan, Danielle ^a   Luhanga, Ulemu ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

approaches to classroom assessment; assessment education; assessment literacy; Classroom assessment; professional learning; standards for classroom assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994106560     PISSN: 0969594X     EISSN: 1465329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0969594X.2016.1244514     Document Type: Article

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