How do faculty make formative use of student evaluation feedback?: A multiple case study

Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-126

  Yao, Yuankun ^a   Grady, Marilyn L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Formative use of evaluation feedback; Student evaluation of teaching; Summative evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746253730     PISSN: 0920525X     EISSN: 15730425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11092-006-9000-9     Document Type: Review

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