Implications of student conceptions of teaching for the reform of engineering education (original) (raw)

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Quality assurance of higher education is based on a combination of collegial and student evaluation in many universities. Conceptions of what teaching at university level involves can be expected to play an important role in defining what we mean by high quality instruction.

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