Interpreting the Numbers: Using a Narrative to Help Others Read Student Evaluations of Your Teaching Accurately

By Jennifer Franklin. 2001

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On the Validity of Student Evaluation of Teaching (2013, background): “Nevertheless, administrators have challenged the validity of SET based on limited psychometric knowledge (Franklin, 2001; Sproule, 2000; Wolfer & Johnson, 2003).”
Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: a Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform (2021, background): “Student evaluations are not designed to be used as a comparative metric across faculty (Franklin, 2001); rather, their purpose is to gather information about how students perceived a faculty member teaching a certain course.”
Student Evaluation Of College Teaching: A Practice In Search Of Principles (2004, methodology): “134 COLLEGE TEACHING T midterm formative evaluations (Austin and Austin 2002), alignment of studentteacher expectations for quality teaching (Bastick 2002a, 2002b), use of letters of evaluations by students (Fulda 2000), and development of SET narratives by faculty (Franklin 2001).”