Course evaluations are used by many institutions in promotion, tenure, and merit decisions.
This article discusses the influences on those evaluations and how faculty can combat those …

Two studies examined student psychological need satisfaction as a predictor of positive
teacher-course evaluations. In Study 1, 268 undergraduates recalled and rated the quality of …

This study investigated whether mean expected grades and the level of difficult/workload in
courses, as reported by students, unduly influence student ratings instruction. Over 50,000 …

The purpose of the present study was to explore the influence of individual and contextual
factors on students' assessments of their own participation in the university classroom and of …

In this study we investigated the relationship between college students' perceptions of
professors' expressiveness and implicit age and gender stereotypes. Three hundred and fifty …

Despite the increasing use of student ratings of teaching in higher education as an indicator
of teaching quality, issues pertaining to the validity and reliability, rather than how best to …

Although the chemistry laboratory is an essential element of the majority of introductory
college and university chemistry courses, labs are often criticized for the lack of student …

This study used a pre/post design to assess student learning for the purposes of examining
relationships among student grades, student learning, and student evaluations of teaching …

Background: Prior to every term, students must select courses (ie, academic units of
instruction within a degree programme) to determine their study programme. Course …

This study reports on the aggregate analysis of scores generated by a standardized
instrument, the Teaching Evaluation Form (TEF; Hudson, 1982), at the College of Social …