The Dimensionality of Student Ratings of Instruction: What We Know and What We Do Not*

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A Multilevel Factor Analysis of Students’ Evaluations of Teaching (2005, methodology): “Abrami et al. subsequently conducted a second-order component analysis, which indicated that students’ ratings of teaching effectiveness did indeed measure a general instructional skill (GIS), therefore confirming the PC analysis that there was a global measure of instructional skill. The GIS consis”
Do Your Students Care Whether you Care About Them? (2009, background): “There are many different types of evaluation forms, and Abrami, d’Apollina, and Rosenfield (1997) conducted a large-scale factor analysis to determine whether a common core of traits exists across these varied questionnaires.”
Instruments for obtaining student feedback: a review of the literature (2005, methodology): “It has, however, been described as a ‘ritual’ (Abrami et al., 1996, p. 213), and precisely for that reason it may not always be regarded as a serious matter by those involved.”