Research, teaching and performance evaluation in academia: the salience of quality

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1455-1473

  Cadez, Simon ^a   Dimovski, Vlado ^a   Zaman Groff, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

performance evaluation; research productivity; research quality; teaching quality; university

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948756912     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1104659     Document Type: Article

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