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On the Validity of Student Evaluation of Teaching: The State of the Art
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The authors provided an extensive overview of the recent literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in higher education, based on the SET meta-validation model, drawing upon research reports published in peer-reviewed journals since 2000.Abstract:
This article provides an extensive overview of the recent literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in higher education. The review is based on the SET meta-validation model, drawing upon research reports published in peer-reviewed journals since 2000. Through the lens of validity, we consider both the more traditional research themes in the field of SET (i.e., the dimensionality debate, the ‘bias’ question, and questionnaire design) and some recent trends in SET research, such as online SET and bias investigations into additional teacher personal characteristics. The review provides a clear idea of the state of the art with regard to research on SET, thus allowing researchers to formulate suggestions for future research. It is argued that SET remains a current yet delicate topic in higher education, as well as in education research. Many stakeholders are not convinced of the usefulness and validity of SET for both formative and summative purposes. Research on SET has thus far failed to provide c...read more
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Why Good Teaching Evaluations May Reward Bad Teaching: On Grade Inflation and Other Unintended Consequences of Student Evaluations.
TL;DR: It is argued that one major contributor to this paradox is grading leniency, encouraged by the practice of university administrators to base important personnel decisions on student evaluations of teaching, which creates strong incentives for instructors to teach in ways that would result in good student evaluations.
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Using institutional data to predict student course selections in higher education
TL;DR: The findings suggest that a students' grade point average relative to the grades of the courses they are considering for enrolment was the most important factor in determining future course selections, consistent with theories of modern counseling psychology that acknowledges self-efficacy as a critical factor in career planning.
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The Ranking Regime and the Production of Knowledge: Implications for Academia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the ostensive purpose of the ranking regime is to identify "world class" universities, and thus to organize postsecondary education into a competitive transnational market, and argue that this ranking regime affects the production and evaluation of knowledge by promoting individualism, standardization, commodification, and homogenization.
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Availability of cookies during an academic course session affects evaluation of teaching.
Michael Hessler,Daniel M. Pöpping,Hanna Hollstein,Hendrik Ohlenburg,Philip Arnemann,Christina Massoth,Laura Seidel,Alexander Zarbock,Manuel Wenk +8 more
TL;DR: It is investigated whether the provision of chocolate cookies as a content‐unrelated intervention influences SET results.
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Computer-Assisted Reading and Discovery for Student Generated Text in Massive Open Online Courses
TL;DR: The Structural Topic Model is introduced, an approach to language processing that can identify syntactic patterns with semantic meaning in unstructured text, identify variation in those patterns across covariates, and uncover archetypal texts that exemplify the documents within a topical pattern.
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