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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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The dimensionality of student ratings of teaching: integration of uni‐ and multidimensional models
Pedro Apodaca,Hector Grad +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive theoretical framework, stressing the relation between effective teaching theory and the expected construct of teaching performance in students' view, is advanced, and the structure of teaching competencies is analyzed by means of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and similarity structure analysis (SSA).
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On the Validity of RateMyProfessors.com
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address some of the most common questions and concerns regarding RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) and find that the ratings are not dominated by griping, the summary evaluation correlates highly with summary evaluations from an official university evaluation, and substantive relations are generally the same when only a single rating has been provided.
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Characteristics of Mindless Teaching Evaluations and the Moderating Effects of Image Compatibility
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between student images of their teachers and characteristics of SET completion and found significant correlations between SET scores and overall teacher evaluations, but only when images of the current and ideal teacher are not compatible.
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Optimizing the Fairness of Student Evaluations: A Study of Correlations between Instructor Excellence, Study Production, Learning Production, and Expected Grades.
TL;DR: This article studied the relationship between student ratings of instructor excellence and study production, learning production, and expected grades production and found that some teachers were rated relatively high as instructors but relatively low as producers of study and learning, whereas other teachers are rated relatively low ASI but relatively high ASI producers of studying and learning.
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Rate My Professor: Online Evaluations of Psychology Instructors
Kathleen M. Silva,Francisco J. Silva,Megan A. Quinn,Jill N. Draper,Kimberly R. Cover,Alison A. Munoff +5 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzed students' ratings and comments of their psychology instructors that were posted on RateMyProfessors.com and Ratemyprofessors.ca to determine which features of a course and an instructor were important.