Providing assessment feedback to pre-service teachers: a study of examiners’ comments

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 1-14

  Adalberon, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Feedback; higher education; teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85088261726     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2020.1795081     Document Type: Article

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