My Professor is Hot! Correlates of RateMyProfessors.com Ratings for Criminal Justice and Criminology Faculty Members

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 639-656

  Johnson, Richard R ^a   Crews, Angela D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Criminal justice; Evaluations; Faculty; Internet; Online; Quality; Ratemyprofessors.com; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887403275     PISSN: 10662316     EISSN: 19361351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12103-012-9186-y     Document Type: Article

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