How reliable are students’ evaluations of teaching quality? A variance components approach
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عنوان ژورنال: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0260-2938,1469-297X
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2016.1261083