Posts Tagged ‘student ratings’
December 18 - Student Evaluations of Instructors: A Bad Thing?
By: John N. McDaniel, PhD in Academic Leadership, Faculty Evaluation
In yesterday’s post, it was argued that perhaps student evaluations were not, in Martha Stewart’s famous phrase, “a good thing,” given doubts about the qualifications of students to judge instructors, questionable validity of the evaluation instrument, threats to academic freedom, and misuse by administrators. Every college instructor subjected to student evaluation, myself included, has probably
November 13 - Answers for Those Afraid to Take a Hit on College Student Ratings
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Evaluation
At a workshop on learner-centered teaching, a participant told us that philosophically she couldn’t agree more with the need to make students more responsible for their own learning, but she couldn’t go there because her ratings would take a hit. I assumed this meant she was a new faculty member and under scrutiny for tenure. [...]
