Benchmarking for the effective use of student evaluation data

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 20-29

  Smithson, John ^a   Birks, Melanie ^a   Harrison, Glenn ^a   Sid Nair, Chenicheri ^b   Hitchins, Marnie ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Course evaluation; Evaluation; Feedback; Quality evaluation; Student feedback benchmarks; Subject evaluation; Unit evaluation; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920876507     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/QAE-12-2013-0049     Document Type: Article

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