The changing nature of teaching and unit evaluations in Australian universities

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 274-288

  Shah, Mahsood ^a   Nair, Chenicheri Sid ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Performance appraisal; Performance based funding; Quality assurance; Teaching; Teaching and unit evaluations; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863484878     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684881211240321     Document Type: Article

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