Appropriate Criteria: Key to Effective Rubrics

Frontiers in Education

Volumn 3, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Brookhart, Susan M ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment expectations; criteria; higher education; performance level descriptions; rubrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85062958375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2504284X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2018.00022     Document Type: Review

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