"He will crush you like an academic ninja!": Exploring teacher ratings on ratemyprofessors.com

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Kindred, Jeannette ^a   Mohammed, Shaheed N ^a  

^a MARIST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE EDUCATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

CLASSROOMS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; INTERPERSONAL UTILITY; TEACHERS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 21344462588     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00257.x     Document Type: Article

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