TEF 2018: Can students trust the gold standard?

Improvements in the TEF awards from one year to another is not only remarkable, says Paul Aswhin, it also calls into question the validity of this exercise to accurately measure teaching quality 

Published on
June 6, 2018
Last updated
June 7, 2018
Paul Ashwin
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