Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education
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JEL classification:
- A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2007-01-28 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2007-01-28 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-SOG-2007-01-28 (Sociology of Economics)
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