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Faculty Ratings: Procedures for Interpreting Student Evaluations:

Faculty Ratings: Procedures for Interpreting Student Evaluations: The use of student evaluations to rate college faculty on teaching merit is common practice on many campuses today. Knowledge, or at least the suspicion, that there are numerous sources of bias in these evaluations is probably equally common. Yet, although much effort has gone into locating and identifying sources of bias, little attention has been paid to procedures for handling them when employing student evaluations for making serious, practical decisions about faculty merit. This paper offers a relatively simple procedure for doing so, using multiple regression analysis, and illustrates its use with data collected by the author during the Fall and Winter of 1974-1975. It is suggested that if this or other procedures cannot be used to adjust faculty ratings for irrelevant course and teacher attributes which color students’ opinions and confound the analysis, then the use of student evaluations for making serious judgments of merit ought to be abandoned. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Educational Research Journal SAGE

Faculty Ratings: Procedures for Interpreting Student Evaluations:

American Educational Research Journal , Volume 14 (4): 12 – Nov 23, 2016

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SAGE
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Copyright © 2019 by American Educational Research Association
ISSN
0002-8312
eISSN
1935-1011
DOI
10.3102/00028312014004459
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Abstract

The use of student evaluations to rate college faculty on teaching merit is common practice on many campuses today. Knowledge, or at least the suspicion, that there are numerous sources of bias in these evaluations is probably equally common. Yet, although much effort has gone into locating and identifying sources of bias, little attention has been paid to procedures for handling them when employing student evaluations for making serious, practical decisions about faculty merit. This paper offers a relatively simple procedure for doing so, using multiple regression analysis, and illustrates its use with data collected by the author during the Fall and Winter of 1974-1975. It is suggested that if this or other procedures cannot be used to adjust faculty ratings for irrelevant course and teacher attributes which color students’ opinions and confound the analysis, then the use of student evaluations for making serious judgments of merit ought to be abandoned.

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American Educational Research JournalSAGE

Published: Nov 23, 2016

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