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20 - Teacher Expectations and Feedback Practices in South African Schools

from Part III - Contexts and Sources of Feedback

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2018

By
Anil Kanjee
Edited by
Anastasiya A. Lipnevich  and
Jeffrey K. Smith
Anastasiya A. Lipnevich
Affiliation:
Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Jeffrey K. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Otago, New Zealand
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The Cambridge Handbook of Instructional Feedback , pp. 451 - 473
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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