Student perception of teaching effectiveness: development and validation of the Evaluation of Teaching Competencies Scale (ETCS) |
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| Authors: | Victor M Catano Steve Harvey |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology , Saint Mary’s University , Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada , B3H 3C3;2. School of Business , Bishop’s University , Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada |
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| Abstract: | A major criticism of student evaluations of teaching is that they do not reflect student perspectives. Using critical incidents job analysis, students identified nine teaching effectiveness competencies: communication, availability, creativity, individual consideration, social awareness, feedback, professionalism, conscientiousness and problem‐solving. The behaviourally anchored Evaluation of Teaching Competencies Scale is a highly reliable (alpha = .94), unidimensional measure that correlated strongly with an instructor‐related composite of the Students’ Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ, r = .72), but not to a SEEQ composite related to instructor assigned work (r = .04, N = 195). The results are discussed in the context of other measures of teaching effectiveness and transformational leadership theory. |
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| Keywords: | student evaluation of teaching teaching effectiveness leadership teaching competencies |
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