Student evaluation of teaching, formulation of grade expectations, and instructor choice: Explorations with random-effects ordered probability models

Eastern Economic Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 296-309

  Matos Díaz, Horacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

maximum likelihood methods; ordered probability models; random effects; relative expected grade; SET ratings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862180017     PISSN: 00945056     EISSN: 19394632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/eej.2011.7     Document Type: Article

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