RateMyProfessors com versus formal in-class student evaluations of teaching

By T. Coladarci, I. Kornfield. 2007

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1. Andrew S. Rosen
2. D. Wiley
3. John Hilton III
4. Elizabeth Davison
5. Jammie Price
6. Wolfgang Stroebe

Citations in the corpus

• How do we rate? An evaluation of online student evaluations (2009, background): “This paper contributes to the emerging literature (see Felton et al. 2004; Coladarci and Kornfield 2007) that provides information on the services and disservices of this popular website to the academic community.”
• Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education (2009, result): “Students’ informal ratings in RateMyProfessor (more than 10,000,000 ratings as of September, 2009) have been shown to correlate significantly with the formal student evaluations completed within universities (Coladarci & Kornfield, 2007).”
• Correlations, trends and potential biases among publicly accessible web-based student evaluations of teaching: a large-scale study of RateMyProfessors.com data (2018, result): “In a study by Coladarci and Kornfield (2007), the results of RateMyProfessors ratings for professors at the University of Maine were compared with formal in-class student evaluations.”