Measurement Issues in Student Evaluations of Instruction and Their Impact on Decision Making [electronic resource] / Thomas R. Cochran and Archer Gravely.
Methods were examined by which the results of student evaluations of instruction may be presented as one indicator of teaching effectiveness for faculty personnel committees in order to best answer the question of teaching competence. Specifically, the study examined two measures of central tendency...
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| 520 | |a Methods were examined by which the results of student evaluations of instruction may be presented as one indicator of teaching effectiveness for faculty personnel committees in order to best answer the question of teaching competence. Specifically, the study examined two measures of central tendency, the median and the mean, to determine which method best addressed the question of competence versus incompetence, rather than the teaching style used. The data utilized were the student evaluations of instruction for the 1986-87 year at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The evaluation data for each class were merged with the personnel system to capture faculty demographics. A total of 210 faculty were included. The results indicated that the median better addresses the questions of competence than does the mean, given the limitations of ordinal data combined with the highly negatively skewed distribution. Those faculty rated between 3.5 and 4.0 on a five-point scale often are subject to unwarranted scrutiny by personnel committees concerning their competence. If the median were used, those questions would not occur. Recommendations are made regarding (1) feedback procedures by department chairs and deans; (2) peer review systems; (3) collection of data on valued teaching activities; and (4) personnel procedures that weight teaching, research, and service. (KM) | ||
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