Student Ratings: Validity, Utility, and Controversy

By J. Kulik. 2001

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Increasing the Use of Evidence‐Based Teaching in STEM Higher Education: A Comparison of Eight Change Strategies (2014, background): “Yet many argue that these are indirect and invalid measures of teaching effectiveness (Greenwald, 1997; Kulik, 2001).”
Survey of 12 Strategies to Measure Teaching Effectiveness (2005, background): “This similarity indicates alumni retain a high level of detail about their course taking experiences (Kulik, 2001).”
Student Evaluations of Teaching: Are They Related to What Students Learn? (2009, background): “Essentially, no one has given a widely accepted definition of what “good” teaching is, nor has a universally agreeable criterion of teaching effectiveness been established (J. V. Adams, 1997; Kulik, 2001).”
Student Ratings of Teaching : A Summary of Research and Literature (2012, unknown): “Validity Approach Three: Examining Possible Sources of Bias One need not talk with faculty very long to be aware of their concern about possible biases in student ratings. Some writers have suggested that bias can be defined as anything not under the control of the instructor. However, Marsh (2007) ”
Teacher professionalism and student evaluation of teaching: will better teachers receive higher ratings and will better students give higher ratings? (2006, background): “Kulik (2001) states that the initial aim of student evaluations of teaching served two goals: mapping the quality of teaching in faculties/universities, and providing information and help to instructors in order to improve their teaching.”
On the Validity of Student Evaluation of Teaching (2013, background): “With regard to the number of response options, Landrum and Braitman (2008) reported that students use a greater range of points on a 5-point scale than they do on a 10-point scale.”
Student evaluation of teaching quality in higher education: development of an instrument based on 10 Likert‐scales (2007, background): “They consider student ratings as ‘meaningless quantification’ and leading to ‘personality contests’ (see Kulik, 2001), instead of being an effective measure of teaching effectiveness.”
Ratings of university teacher instruction: how much do student and course characteristics really matter? (2005, background): “Other studies demonstrate an inverse relationship between workload and student ratings (Kulik, 2001; Greenwald, 2002).”
Students’ Perceptions of Characteristics of Effective College Teachers: A Validity Study of a Teaching Evaluation Form Using a Mixed-Methods Analysis (2007, methodology): “Used as a summative evaluation measure, TEFs serve as an indicator of accountability by playing a central role in administrative decisions about faculty tenure, promotion, merit pay raises, teaching awards, and selection of full-time and adjunct faculty members to teach specific courses (Kulik, 2001”