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Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Volume 23, 1998 - Issue 3
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Risk and Uncertainty in Assessment: exploring the contribution of economics to identifying and analysing the social dynamic in grading

Garth Allen Department of Social Sciences, University College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 241-258 | Published online: 10 Jul 2006

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