Guarding Against Potential Bias in Student Evaluations: What Every Faculty Member Needs to Know

College Teaching

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-32

  Baldwin, Tamara ^a   Blattner, Nancy ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

review; student evaluations; teaching effectiveness; tenure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948887374     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87567550309596407     Document Type: Article

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