An investigation was conducted into 3-or 4-year departmental sets of student feedback
questionnaire data from one university. Only four out of 25 departments had significant …

This study investigated the question: Has the use of student evaluations of teaching
effectiveness been a contributing factor to a trend of grade inflation in a mid-sized, public …

Universities throughout the world are undertaking benchmarking exercises in which they
compare themselves to other universities on appropriate indices in order to establish their …

Structural equation modeling is used to examine the nomological relationships between the
five latent constructs that comprise the Student Instructional Rating System (SIRS), a widely …

The halo effect is a construct reserved to explain individual rater's failure to discriminate
among conceptually distinct aspects of a stimulus person's behavior. One hundred twenty …

Student teacher evaluations have been the subject of a great deal of research. In this study,
the authors surveyed 750 freshmen in an Introduction to Business class. The authors found …

Due to increased external, societal pressure on schools via developments such as
accountability and accreditation, there is a growing need of schools for instruments that …

This paper presents two related arguments. The first is that all models of instructor
performance are underdetermined by the student evaluation of teaching data. The second is …

Se discuten las posibilidades y limitaciones de las funcionalidades sumativa y formativa en
el uso de las encuestas de opinión del alumnado sobre la calidad docente de su …

The prevalent use of student ratings in teaching evaluations, particularly the reliability of
such data, has been debated for many years. Reports in the literature indicate that there are …