Knowing HE standards: how good are students at evaluating academic work?

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2022, Pages 714-728

  Guest, Jon ^a   Riegler, Robert ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evaluation accuracy; evaluation consistency; evaluation design; Peer evaluation; self evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099310791     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1867516     Document Type: Article

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