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Making students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness effective: The critical issues of validity, bias, and utility.
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In this paper, a broad construct-validation approach is proposed to recognize that effective teaching and SETs that reflect teaching effectiveness are multidimensional, and tentative interpretations of relations with validity criteria and potential biases should be evaluated critically in different contexts, in relation to multiple criteria of effective teaching, theory, and existing knowledge.Abstract:
This article reviews research indicating that, under appropriate conditions, students' evaluations of teaching (SETs) are (a) multidimensional; (b) reliable and stable; (c) primarily a function of the instructor who teaches a course rather than the course that is taught; (d) relatively valid against a variety of indicators of effective teaching; (e) relatively unaffected by a variety of variables hypothesized as potential biases (e.g., grading leniency, class size, workload, prior subject interest); and (f) useful in improving teaching effectiveness when SETS are coupled with appropriate consultation. The authors recommend rejecting a narrow criterion-related approach to validity and adopting a broad construct-validation approach, recognizing that effective teaching and SETs that reflect teaching effectiveness are multidimensional; no single criterion of effective teaching is sufficient; and tentative interpretations of relations with validity criteria and potential biases should be evaluated critically in different contexts, in relation to multiple criteria of effective teaching, theory, and existing knowledge.read more
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Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling, Integrating CFA and EFA: Application to Students' Evaluations of University Teaching
Herbert W. Marsh,Bengt Muthén,Tihomir Asparouhov,Oliver Lüdtke,Alexander Robitzsch,Alexandre J. S. Morin,Ulrich Trautwein +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a taxonomy of ESEM measurement invariance is proposed, showing complete invariance (factor loadings, factor correlations, item uniquenesses, item intercepts, latent means) over multiple groups based on the SETs collected in the first and second halves of a 13-year period.
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Instruments for obtaining student feedback: a review of the literature
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the research evidence concerning the use of formal instruments to measure students' evaluations of their teachers, students' satisfaction with their programs and students' perceptions of the quality of their programs.
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Grading leniency is a removable contaminant of student ratings.
TL;DR: This conclusion justifies use of a statistical correction to remove the unwanted inflation of ratings produced by lenient grading, and can profitably seek other inappropriate influences on ratings to identify more opportunities for validity-enhancing adjustments.
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Navigating student ratings of instruction.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence that although effective instruction may be multidimensional, ratings of instruction measure general instructional skill, which is a composite of three subskills: delivering instruction, facilitating interactions, and evaluating student learning.
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Students' evaluations of University teaching: Research findings, methodological issues, and directions for future research
TL;DR: This article provided an overview of findings and of research methodology used to study students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness, and examined implications and directions for future research, concluding that students' ratings are primarily a function of the instructor who teaches a course rather than the course that is taught, and relatively valid against a variety of indicators of effective teaching.
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Students' evaluations of university teaching: Dimensionality, reliability, validity, potential baises, and utility.
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The Relationship Between Research and Teaching: A Meta-Analysis
John Hattie,Herb Marsh +1 more
TL;DR: A review of various models of the relationship between research and teaching in universities is presented, and the evidence necessary to assess each model is outlined as mentioned in this paper, concluding that the relationship is zero.
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Grading leniency is a removable contaminant of student ratings.
TL;DR: This conclusion justifies use of a statistical correction to remove the unwanted inflation of ratings produced by lenient grading, and can profitably seek other inappropriate influences on ratings to identify more opportunities for validity-enhancing adjustments.