Feelings About Feedback: The Role of Emotions in Assessment for Learning

Enabling Power of Assessment

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages 159-172

  Rowe, Anna D ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive Reappraisal; Discrete Emotion; Institutional Level; Social Emotion; Understanding Emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85136736125     PISSN: 21982643     EISSN: 21982651     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3045-1_11     Document Type: Chapter

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