Monitoring Trends in Student Satisfaction

Tertiary Education and Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 301-322

  Grebennikov, Leonid ^a   Shah, Mahsood ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

importance; performance; satisfaction; student experience; trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885189924     PISSN: 13583883     EISSN: 15731936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13583883.2013.804114     Document Type: Article

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