A cyclical self-assessment process: towards a model of how students engage in self-assessment

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1247-1262

  Yan, Zi ^a   Brown, Gavin T L ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

higher education; Self assessment; self directed feedback seeking; self reflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996635661     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2016.1260091     Document Type: Article

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