How to improve your teaching evaluations without improving your teaching

Psychological Reports

Volumn 78, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1363-1372

  Neath, Ian ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0013034715     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.78.3c.1363     Document Type: Article

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