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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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How beauty works. Theoretical mechanisms and two empirical applications on students' evaluation of teaching.
Tobias Wolbring,Patrick Riordan +1 more
TL;DR: Using students' evaluations of teaching, observational and experimental evidence is found for the different causal pathways of physical attractiveness and the beauty premium turns into a penalty if an attractive instructor falls short of students' expectations.
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Exploring the communities of learning policy in New Zealand using social network analysis: A case study of leadership, expertise, and networks
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used social network analysis to investigate the patterns of collaboration and advice-seeking within and across five schools that comprise one Community of Learning (CoL) in New Zealand.
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Teachers’ perceptions of student evaluations of teaching
TL;DR: A review of literature on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) surveys suggests that considerable controversy and criticism have surrounded its use, fairness, and validity as discussed by the authors, and that many universities in Hong Kong are depending primarily on student feedback in SET surveys to provide evidence for their improvement of teaching and learning, and for their decisions made on teachers' pay-rise and tenure.
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Discrepancies in purposes of student course evaluations: what does it mean to be “satisfied”?
TL;DR: This paper explored how students and teachers perceive how different student evaluation methods at a Norwegian university invite students to provide feedback about aspects relevant to their learning processes and found that evaluation questions in surveys emerged as mostly teaching-oriented, non-specific and satisfaction-based.
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A Flipped Classroom Approach to Teaching Empirical Software Engineering
TL;DR: In this paper, a longitudinal study of the flipped classroom approach to software engineering was conducted at an international master's program in Sweden, given in English, and partially replicated at a university in Africa, showing that students' academic success can be improved by introducing a flipped classroom to teach software engineering topics, but this may not extend to their subjective liking of the material, as measured by student evaluations.
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