Number’s Consequences – an Experiment and a Discussion in Standardization of Teaching Effectiveness Evaluations Based Course Performance Statistics

1 Hong Wu, Østfold University College, Norway, N-1705 [email protected] Abstract  It is both interesting and worthwhile to experiment new methods for online course’s effectiveness evaluations. The current study is an attempt for such an unconventional method. A survey of a number of sampled online courses is conducted on these courses’ performance statistics, as their numbers of registered course documents. The survey analysis has examined these courses’ performance statistics and established an empirical performance summary from each course. Further analysis compared on these performance summaries each other and mapped correlations between these performance summaries. As a result, a measurement standard for effectiveness evaluations for these online courses is established, empirically. The current study has also discussed the validity and reliability issues in standardization of teaching effectiveness evaluations based on courses’ performance statistics.