RateMyProfessors.com offers biased evaluations

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-97

  Legg, Angela M ^a   Wilson, Janie H ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

in class evaluations; online evaluations; RateMyProfessors.com; RMP; student evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860669091     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2010.507299     Document Type: Article

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