The teacher, the physician and the person: exploring causal connections between teaching performance and role model types using directed acyclic graphs.

BACKGROUND: In fledgling areas of research, evidence supporting causal assumptions is often scarce due to the small number of empirical studies conducted. In many studies it remains unclear what impact explicit and implicit causal assumptions have on the research findings; only the primary assumptio...

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Main Authors: Benjamin C M Boerebach, Kiki M J M H Lombarts, Albert J J Scherpbier, Onyebuchi A Arah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3720648?pdf=render