Labeling each response option and the direction of the positive options impacts student course ratings

Academic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 10 SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Albanese, Mark ^a   Prucha, Carolyn ^b   Barnet, Jodi H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030734709     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199710001-00002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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