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‘Transforming the learner’ versus ‘passing the exam’: Understanding the gap between academic and student definitions of quality

Ming Cheng Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Brighton, Brighton, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 3-17 | Published online: 08 Apr 2011

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