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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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Gender Expectations and On-Line Evaluations of Teaching: Evidence from RateMyProfessors.com.
TL;DR: This article explored whether an instructor's gender influences how students rate that instructor using publicly available data from RateMyProfessors.com and found that female instructors are rated more positively when they display traditionally female traits, namely teaching in a traditionally female field and offering courses that are perceived as easier.
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What is Ethical About Grade Inflation and Coursework Deflation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss ethical and unethical SET management techniques of professors, along with incentive and structural pander pollution of administrators and universities, and argue that these unethical teaching techniques used by many faculties are on the same plane as the unethical practices of executives “cooking their books.
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The impact of electronic media on faculty evaluation
Reza Barkhi,Paul Williams +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the communication differences between student scores from FTF student evaluations and CMC evaluation questions from end-of-semester evaluations from a university in the Middle East region were analyzed.
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Evaluating the effect of a lecturer’s language background on a student rating of teaching form
TL;DR: This article found that overall student ratings of English as a second language (ESL) lecturers are, on average, 0.4 points lower on a five-point scale than those of native English speaking lecturers.
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Using qualitative methods to assess teaching effectiveness
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how qualitative methods can be used to conduct peer evaluations of teaching and program-level assessments of teaching effectiveness, and improve teaching and learning outcomes, and propose a method to improve the quality of teacher evaluation.