Toward a more comprehensive approach to evaluating teaching effectiveness: Supplementing student evaluations of teaching with pre-post learning measures

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-415

  Stark Wroblewski, Kimberly ^a   Ahlering, Robert F ^a   Brill, Flannery M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 77953907644     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602930600898536     Document Type: Review

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