Taiwanese students’ perceptions of teaching assistants’ effectiveness in group work education.
To effectively enhance teaching quality at universities, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan established a programme for promoting teaching excellence and adopted a teaching assistant (TA) system in 2004. Although studies of TA systems have covered various topics, empirical research investigating st...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 250 - 265 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2018
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