What's a comment worth? How to better understand student evaluations of teaching

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-83

  Wongsurawat, Winai ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Critical training; Students; Teaching; Training evaluation; Written communications

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751638536     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684881111107762     Document Type: Article

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