Academics' resistance to summative peer review of teaching: questionable rewards and the importance of student evaluations

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 557-569

  Iqbal, Isabeau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

institutional rewards; student evaluation of teaching; summative peer review of teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881665143     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2013.764863     Document Type: Article

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