Learning by doing: Do economics students self-evaluation skills improve?

International Review of Economics Education

Volumn 24, Issue , 2017, Pages 50-64

  Guest, Jon ^a   Riegler, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economics teaching; Feedback; Independent learning skills; Student self evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006018025     PISSN: 14773880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iree.2016.10.002     Document Type: Article

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