Student self-assessment: why do they do it?

Educational Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 509-532

  Yan, Zi ^a   Brown, Gavin T L ^b   Lee, John Chi Kin ^a   Qiu, Xue Lan ^c  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

predictor; Rasch measurement; Self assessment; theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074019529     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2019.1672038     Document Type: Article

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