College Students' Evaluations of Teaching and Grade Inflation

Research in Higher Education - This study investigated the question: Has the use of student evaluations of teaching effectiveness been a contributing factor to a trend of grade inflation in a...     

Teachers’ perceptions of student evaluations of teaching

Evaluation of teaching in higher education has drawn much attention due to the need for greater accountability and improvement in student learning. Our review of literature on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) surveys suggests that considerable controversy and criticism have surrounded its use, fairness, and validity. Yet, 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. If universities are to continue to use SET surveys as the main source of mechanism for measuring teaching effectiveness, teachers will have to understand and be aware of its purposes. But how much do we know about teachers' perceptions of teaching and learning and, consequently, their opinions of using SET surveys as the primary standardized evaluation mechanism of teaching for promotion and tenure and for teaching effectiveness?     

新建本科院校学生网上评教活动影响因素研究

运用问卷调查法,对影响新建本科院校学生网上评教活动的评教态度、评教心理等因素进行了调查。结果表明:学生评教态度对网上评教活动的影响各年级之间差异较大,而学生评教心理对网上评教活动的影响各年级之间没有明显差异。     

Meta-analysis of faculty's teaching effectiveness: Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related

Student evaluation of teaching (SET) ratings are used to evaluate faculty's teaching effectiveness based on a widespread belief that students learn more from highly rated professors. The key evidence cited in support of this belief are meta-analyses of multisection studies showing small-to-moderate correlations between SET ratings and student achievement (e.g., Cohen, 1980, Cohen, 1981; Feldman, 1989). We re-analyzed previously published meta-analyses of the multisection studies and found that their findings were an artifact of small sample sized studies and publication bias. Whereas the small sample sized studies showed large and moderate correlation, the large sample sized studies showed no or only minimal correlation between SET ratings and learning. Our up-to-date meta-analysis of all multisection studies revealed no significant correlations between the SET ratings and learning. These findings suggest that institutions focused on student learning and career success may want to abandon SET ratings as a measure of faculty's teaching effectiveness.     

Graduate teaching assistants: how well do their students think they do?

Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) constitute a valuable and economical teaching force in many higher education undergraduate programmes. However, student satisfaction with their teaching has attracted little attention in the research literature. This study aimed at examining students’ evaluation of teaching of GTAs in discussion groups, as well as exploring the effects of group and GTA variables on these ratings. Data were collected using a questionnaire administered online and completed by 7078 undergraduate students. Participants were enrolled in classes taught by 278 GTAs from four faculties in a major Israeli university. Results indicated that ratings assigned to clarity of instruction were the most salient predictor of students’ overall evaluation. Generally, findings were consistent with those reported in the literature for other categories of instructors. Groups taught by GTAs in exact sciences and engineering were rated higher than those in social sciences and business management. Group size and the percentage of men students were inversely correlated with student ratings, while student attendance rate was positively correlated. Women GTAs and GTAs who taught more than one group tended to receive higher ratings. Overall student attendance rate was the most prominent predictor of student ratings. The implications of the findings are discussed.     

教师和学生对“学生评教”的看法调查

本研究调查了52位外语系教师和116名公共外语研究生对于“学生评教”的看法。结果显示,大部分师生赞成“学生评教”。他们认为这种做法在一定程度上可以提高教学质量。他们对其他问题的回答也给我们提供了有益的信息,有助于进一步完善评估体系。     

高校学生评教影响因素的调查研究

学生评教是高等教育质量保障不可或缺的方式,然而评教结果失真是高校面临的共性 难题。本文通过对Y学院220名学生进行问卷调查和对8位学生进行访谈,从评教主体、客体和实 施三方面展开调查。调查结果表明：评教主体方面,学生对评教的认识不到位、态度不认真、具有偏 差心理,学生背景信息会对评教产生影响;评教客体方面,对评教的影响较明显,影响程度较大的 因素依次是教学态度、道德品质、教学方法、师生关系、要求严格程度、教学效果和课程重要性;评教 实施方面,影响较大的因素是评教信息的保密性和评教宣传。最后,提出学生评教完善对策,以期 提高学生评教结果的真实性。     

试论信息不对称与高等学校学生评教

学生评教是高等学校教学质量管理的关键举措.在其运作过程中存在诸多信息不时称现象,它会造成学生和教师的逆选择及败德行为.根据信息不对称理论对学生评教的分析,学生、教师的逆选择和败德行为的发生不仅与评教过程中的信息不对称有关,还与目前学生评教制度运作的不科学有关.所以,完善学生评教制度,需要促成教学信息在管理方、教师和学生之间的对称配置,同时应使学生评教制度回归到服务学生和实现学生利益这一基点上.     

浅析我国高校目前学生评教存在的问题及对策

学生评教是学生对教师教学效果和教学质量的一种评判,分析高校学生评教存在的一些问题,讨论教学对评教结果的应对以及管理者对评教制度的设计,提出优化和完善学生评教体系,构建科学有效的高校学生评教体系。     

高校教师教学质量学生评估模型的实证研究

通过自编学生评教问卷对436名大学生进行无记名调查,数据运用SPSS11．50软件进行探索性因子分析,结果表明大学生对教师教学质量的评价有五个维度：内容组织、师生沟通、为人师表、课堂吸引力和教学实践性,累计贡献率54．67％;根据因子负载及每个因子的标识项目数确定五个维度在评教中的权重,从而构建大学生评教体系及计分方法,即学生评教模型。