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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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Meta-analysis of faculty's teaching effectiveness: Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related
TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of all multisection studies and found no significant correlations between student evaluation of teaching (SET) ratings and learning, and suggested that institutions focused on student learning and career success may want to abandon SET ratings as a measure of faculty's teaching effectiveness.
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Gender biases in student evaluations of teaching
TL;DR: This article used data from a French university to analyze gender biases in student evaluations of teaching (SETs) and found that male students express a bias in favor of male professors, despite the fact that students appear to learn as much from women as from men.
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Teaching with technology in higher education: understanding conceptual change and development in practice
TL;DR: This paper found that teachers' conceptions of and approaches to teaching with technology are central for the successful implementation of educational technologies in higher education, and that teachers were concerned with the success of the implementation of higher education.
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Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university students
Tracey Bretag,Rowena Harper,Michael Burton,Cath Ellis,Philip M. Newton,Pearl Rozenberg,Sonia Saddiqui,Karen van Haeringen +7 more
TL;DR: This paper reported that Australian universities are facing a significant and growing problem of students outsourcing their assessment to third parties, a behaviour commonly known as ''c...'' behaviour commonly referred to as "c...
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A Century of Grading Research: Meaning and Value in the Most Common Educational Measure
Susan M. Brookhart,Thomas R. Guskey,Alex J. Bowers,James H. McMillan,Jeffrey K. Smith,Lisa F. Smith,Michael T. Stevens,Megan E. Welsh +7 more
TL;DR: A review of over 100 years of research on grading considers five types of studies: early studies of the reliability of grades, quantitative studies of composition of K-12 report card grades, survey and interview studies of teachers' perceptions of grade, studies of standards-based grading, and grading in higher education.
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Do Higher Grades Lead to Favorable Student Evaluations
Paul Isely,Harinder Singh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take another look at the controversy by employing class-specific observations and controlling for time-invariant instructor and course differences with a fixed-effects model, and find that it is the gap between expected grade and cumulative grade point average of incoming students that is the relevant explanatory variable, not expected grade as employed in the previous literature.
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Academic Pedagogies, Quality Logics and Performative Universities: Evaluating Teaching and What Students Want.
TL;DR: The authors argued that generic evaluations are more about accountability and marketing than about improvement of teaching and learning, and pointed out that what students want is not the only criterion for judging teaching and that professionals require, as do academics, a capacity for critical judgement about what constitutes valued knowledge in the pedagogical relationship between teacher and student.
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Hot or not: do professors perceived as physically attractive receive higher student evaluations?
TL;DR: Natural occurring data suggested that professors perceived as attractive received higher student evaluations when compared with those of a nonattractive control group (matched for department and gender).
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Student Perspectives on Teaching and its Evaluation
TL;DR: The authors explored student perspectives on course and teacher ratings as well as some issues related to teaching effectiveness and faculty roles, and found that students are generally willing to do evaluations and to provide feedback, and have no particular fear of repercussions.
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The Teacher Behaviors Checklist: Factor Analysis of Its Utility for Evaluating Teaching
TL;DR: This paper converted the Teacher Behaviors Checklist (TBC) to an evaluative instrument to assess teaching by adding specific instructions and a Likert-type scale, which clearly identifies specific target teaching behaviors that instructors can alter to attempt to improve their teaching effectiveness.