Assessing, Analyzing, and Adapting: Improving a Graduate Student Instruction Program Through Needs Assessment

Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 224-239

  Roszkowski, Beth ^a   Reynolds, Gretchen ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Intelligence University   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; graduate students; interdisciplinary research; library instruction; social sciences; user needs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887152665     PISSN: 01639269     EISSN: 15444546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01639269.2013.837798     Document Type: Article

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