From Metrics to Knowledge? Quality Assessment in Higher Education

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-40

  Pettersen, Inger Johanne ^a  

^a TRONDHEIM BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Discursive processes; Higher educations; Learning outcomes; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952035235     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faam.12048     Document Type: Article

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