Dr. Fox Rocks: Using data-mining techniques to examine student ratings of instruction

Quality Research in Literacy and Science Education: International Perspectives and Gold Standards

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 383-398

  Wang, Morgan C ^a   Dziuban, Charles D ^b   Cook, Ida J ^c   Moskal, Patsy D ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c E005A Lagomarcino Hall   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8427-0_19     Document Type: Chapter

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