Using personal quality assessment for selection of social work students

Australian Social Work

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-221

  Gibbons, Jill ^a   Bore, Miles ^a   Munro, Don ^a   Powis, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gate keeping; Personal qualities; Student selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347357517     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03124070701323832     Document Type: Article

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