Understanding student evaluations of teaching quality: The contributions of class attendance

Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-138

  Burns, Shaun Michael ^a,b   Ludlow, Larry H ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Class attendance; Class size; Institutional policy; Teaching quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746253722     PISSN: 0920525X     EISSN: 15730425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11092-006-9002-7     Document Type: Article

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