What do students consider useful about student ratings?

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 519-527

  Beran, Tanya ^a   Violato, Claudio ^a   Kline, Don ^a   Frideres, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Higher education; Reliability; Student ratings; Teaching evaluation; Utility; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956362724     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602930802082228     Document Type: Article

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