The student evaluation of teaching: its failure as a research program, and as an administrative guide
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Keywords
Student evaluation of teaching; validity; biases; fallacies;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
- H83 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Public Administration
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- L3 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise
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