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Improving Teaching and Its Evaluation: A Survey of Political Science Departments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

J. Clifford Fox
Affiliation:
Virginia Commonwealth University
Scott Keeter
Affiliation:
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1996

Footnotes

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The authors would like to thank the staff of the Virginia Commonwealth University Survey Research Laboratory and the VCU Committee on Roles and Rewards for their assistance in the completion of this project.

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