Analysing student evaluations of teaching: Comparing means and proportions

Evaluation and Research in Education

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 183-202

  McCullough, B D ^a   Radson, Darrell ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Data analysis; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053121573     PISSN: 09500790     EISSN: 17477514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500790.2011.603411     Document Type: Article

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