Program Assessment for an Undergraduate Statistics Major

American Statistician

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 417-424

  Moore, Allison Amanda ^a   Kaplan, Jennifer J ^b  

^a US Army Evaluation Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Program assessment; Student learning outcomes; Undergraduate statistics major

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952795761     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1087331     Document Type: Article

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