Accounting administrators’ perceptions of student evaluation of teaching (SET) information

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 213-222

  Larry Crumbley, D ^a   Fliedner, Eugene ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Impression management; Individual behaviour; Instructors; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986134833     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684880210446884     Document Type: Article

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