* Student evaluations of college teachers: perhaps the most contentious issue on campus*
This book offers a more balanced approach* Evaluation affects pay, promotion and tenure …

States that current research reveals the widespread misuse of student evaluations. Argues
that while student evaluations of faculty performance are a valid measure of student …

Findings from research on student ratings are summarized from the 1970s to 2013. There
were 1,874 references, including 564 since 1994, using the ERIC descriptors “student …

This volume of New Directions for Institutional Research is devoted to student ratings, a topic
that continues to occupy a central role in post secondary education. Student ratings of …

It seems clear that the use of systematic student ratings of college teaching has increased
since Astin and Lee's study [1] of a decade ago. Seldin [40] found that more than half of the …

Conclusion. Use of student ratings can be expected to produce lenient grading (by 4a, 3a,
4b, 3b) and to thereby reduce quality of instruction (by 2a, 2b, 2c). Pursuing their belief that …

Colleges and universities invest time, personnel, and money into the process of student
evaluations of faculty. These data provide only one measure of evaluating the quality and …

During the past decade or so, many colleges have placed an increasing emphasis on"
teaching effectiveness" in faculty promotion, tenure, and salary reviews. In most cases, the …

First introduced in the mid-1920s, student evaluation of instruction is a routine, mandatory
part of teaching in colleges and universities in America. In this research, we summarized …

Formal or systematic evaluation by college students of their teachers has long been used to
help students in their selection of courses, to provide feedback to faculty about their …