The Validity of Student Evaluations of Teaching Export

@article{citeulike:1263267, abstract = {This article considers the validity and usefulness of student evaluations of teaching (SET) at a small Australian university. Face and content validity were considered and a factor analysis was performed to evaluate the overall validity of a survey instrument which purports to give useable results in respect to teaching methods and approaches. It was found that the survey instrument was flawed in that the ten compulsory questions of which it is constituted, all collapsed into one dimension. This dimension was determined to be the extent of popularity of the lecturer for whom the survey was conducted. In essence, the survey is not an evaluation of teaching, but rather students' opinions of the lecturer concerned. It was concluded that the SET survey serves no educational purpose and is a violation of academic freedom and lecturers' rights.}, author = {Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {1263267}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/journals/index.php/IJEI/article/view/21}, journal = {International Journal for Educational Integrity}, keywords = {assessment, faculty}, number = {2}, posted-at = {2007-04-28 13:42:12}, priority = {2}, title = {The Validity of Student Evaluations of Teaching}, url = {http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/journals/index.php/IJEI/article/view/21}, volume = {2}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1263267 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1263267 N2 - This article considers the validity and usefulness of student evaluations of teaching (SET) at a small Australian university. Face and content validity were considered and a factor analysis was performed to evaluate the overall validity of a survey instrument which purports to give useable results in respect to teaching methods and approaches. It was found that the survey instrument was flawed in that the ten compulsory questions of which it is constituted, all collapsed into one dimension. This dimension was determined to be the extent of popularity of the lecturer for whom the survey was conducted. In essence, the survey is not an evaluation of teaching, but rather students' opinions of the lecturer concerned. It was concluded that the SET survey serves no educational purpose and is a violation of academic freedom and lecturers’ rights. IS - 2 JF - International Journal for Educational Integrity TI - The Validity of Student Evaluations of Teaching VL - 2 KW - assessment KW - faculty AU - Peter PY - 2006/// UR - http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/journals/index.php/IJEI/article/view/21 ER -