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Setting the scene : the four domains of evaluative practice in Higher Education

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Setting the scene : the four domains of evaluative practice in Higher Education. / Saunders, Murray.
Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education: the practice turn . ed. / Murray Saunders; Paul Trowler; Veronica Bamber. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill / Open University Press, 2011. p. 1-17.

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Harvard

Saunders, M 2011, Setting the scene : the four domains of evaluative practice in Higher Education. in M Saunders, P Trowler & V Bamber (eds), Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education: the practice turn . McGraw-Hill / Open University Press, Maidenhead, pp. 1-17.

APA

Saunders, M. (2011). Setting the scene : the four domains of evaluative practice in Higher Education. In M. Saunders, P. Trowler, & V. Bamber (Eds.), Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education: the practice turn (pp. 1-17). McGraw-Hill / Open University Press.

Vancouver

Saunders M. Setting the scene : the four domains of evaluative practice in Higher Education. In Saunders M, Trowler P, Bamber V, editors, Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education: the practice turn . Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill / Open University Press. 2011. p. 1-17

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Saunders, Murray. / Setting the scene : the four domains of evaluative practice in Higher Education. Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education: the practice turn . editor / Murray Saunders ; Paul Trowler ; Veronica Bamber. Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill / Open University Press, 2011. pp. 1-17

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