Problematising discourse completion tasks: Voices from verbal report

Evaluation and Research in Education

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-69

  Woodfield, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discourse completion task; evaluating; verbal report

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044812379     PISSN: 09500790     EISSN: 17477514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/eri413.0     Document Type: Article

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