Student Evaluations of Teaching (Mostly) Do Not Measure Teaching Effectiveness

Student evaluations of teaching: The students’ perspective

Consultation with all stakeholders is required to embed an evaluation culture effectively within an education institution. One of the groups deeply involved in any institutions evaluation process, but routinely overlooked during such consultations and discussions are the students. Even the evaluation literature is limited on this subject. Evaluations are implemented at most tertiary institution...

Differing Student and Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Effectiveness and the Value of Student Evaluations

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, 1981; Feldman, 1989)...

Student Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness: Student Engagement and Course Characteristics

Characteristics of university courses and student engagement were examined in relation to student ratings of instruction. The Universal Student Ratings of Instruction instrument was administered to students at the end of every course at a major Canadian university over a threeyear period. Using a two-step analytic procedure, a latent variable path model was created. The model showed a moderate ...

Predictors of LMU Student Evaluations of Teaching Scores

Is high-quality teaching the only thing measured by student evaluations of teaching (STE)? What other factors partially explain them? Late in 2011, the Committee on the Comprehensive Evaluation of Teaching (CCET) commissioned Institutional Research (IR) to study various hypotheses about influences on ratings. This paper summarizes results of analyses that address questions posed by the CCET reg...