Understanding academics’ resistance towards (online) student evaluation

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 987-1001

  Rienties, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academics perceptions; mixed method study; online student evaluation; resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926133707     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2014.880777     Document Type: Article

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