Instructor Credibility Across Disciplines: Identifying Students' Differentiated Expectations of Instructor Behaviors

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-165

  Obermiller, Carl ^a   Ruppert, Bryan ^a   Atwood, April ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

instructor behaviors; instructor credibility; student expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861836690     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569911434826     Document Type: Article

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