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    where ‘faculty’ is used to refer to an organisational unit rather than, as is common in the US and some other countries, to individual academic staff

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Macdonald, R., Joughin, G. (2009). Changing Assessment in Higher Education: A Model in Support of Institution-Wide Improvement. In: Joughin, G. (eds) Assessment, Learning and Judgement in Higher Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8905-3_11

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