Students’ perceptions of assessment: a comparative analysis between Portugal and Sweden

Higher Education

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 153-173

  Pereira, Diana ^a   Niklasson, Laila ^b   Flores, Maria Assunção ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assessment; Higher education; Learning; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032069736     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-016-0005-0     Document Type: Article

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