Outcomes assessment in the networked environment: Research questions, issues, considerations, and moving forward

Library Trends

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 590-613

  Bertot, John Carlo ^a   McClure, Charles R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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