Cruelty in Student Teaching Evaluations

College Teaching

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 71-76

  Lindahl, Mary W ^a   Unger, Michael L ^b  

^a MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

mechanisms of moral disengagement; student evaluations of teaching; student as consumer metaphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016457067     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87567550903253643     Document Type: Article

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