The future of self-assessment in classroom practice: reframing self-assessment as a core competency

Frontline Learning Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-30

  Brown, Gavin T L ^a   Harris, Lois R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compulsory Schooling; Curriculum; Research Synthesis; Student Self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85114738056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22953159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14786/flr.v2i1.24     Document Type: Article

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