Measuring Teaching Effectiveness: Correspondence Between Students' Evaluations of Teaching and Different Measures of Student Learning

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 888-904

  Stehle, Sebastian ^a   Spinath, Birgit ^b   Kadmon, Martina ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

SETs; Student learning; Students' evaluations of teaching; Teaching effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867854493     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-012-9260-9     Document Type: Article

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