Assessing the assessment: How institutions administered, interpreted, and used SAILS

Reference Services Review

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-186

  Lym, Brian ^a   Grossman, Hal ^a   Yannotta, Lauren ^a   Talih, Makram ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Higher education; Information literacy; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449097945     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907321011020806     Document Type: Article

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