Journal article
Analysing Student Evaluations of Teaching: comparing means and proportions
Evaluation & research in education, v 24(3), pp 183-202
01 Sep 2011
Abstract
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) play a central role in modern academia. They are used for tenure, promotion, teaching improvement and other important decisions. One would think that the data collected from a SET would be analysed correctly, but such is typically not the case, as can be seen in this study later. Therefore we propose a correct method for analysing SET data. The present paper compares the two methods on a large data-set of actual SETs. We show that the traditional method can misrepresent a teacher's performance, and that the traditional method can be extremely sensitive to outliers; neither of these characteristics is desirable. In contrast, the proposed method appears to suffer from neither of these defects.
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Details
- Title
- Analysing Student Evaluations of Teaching: comparing means and proportions
- Creators
- B.D. McCullough - Drexel UniversityDarrell Radson - Michigan Technological University
- Publication Details
- Evaluation & research in education, v 24(3), pp 183-202
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Decision Sciences (and Management Information Systems)
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-80053121573
- Other Identifier
- 991019173812504721