Peer feedback on academic writing: undergraduate students’ peer feedback role, peer feedback perceptions and essay performance

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 955-968

  Huisman, Bart ^a   Saab, Nadira ^a   van Driel, Jan ^b   van den Broek, Paul ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

academic writing; Peer feedback; perceptions; performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040997507     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2018.1424318     Document Type: Article

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