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- Title
Some Remarks on "Student Ratings": The Validity Problem.
- Authors
Crittenden, Kathleen S.; Norr, James L.
- Abstract
The article discusses the validity problem of student ratings of teachers. There is a pressing need for valid and reliable instruments for measuring teaching behavior to support decisions intended to improve university teaching. Since students have the greatest opportunity to observe teaching behavior, student evaluations of teaching increasingly are being proposed as a solution to the current lack of systematic information. The major question involved in using student ratings to evaluate instruction is the validity of these ratings, especially with regard to their relation to student learning. The general criterion for approaches to validity are reliability: it is seen as a precondition for validity, and considerable research has been directed to establishing the stability and internal consistency of student ratings of instructors and their dimensionality. This consistency provides evidence of students ability to distinguish reliably among different instructors and different dimensions of teaching performance. Performance and performance gain validation: attempts to validate student evaluation ratings against performance gains rather than performance levels are fraught with practical and technical difficulties. Despite these difficulties, performance gain seems to be the most theoretically desirable criterion against which to validate student ratings of instructors.
- Subjects
STUDENT evaluation of teachers; TEACHER orientation; STUDENTS; TEACHER-student relationships; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood; EDUCATION
- Publication
American Educational Research Journal, 1975, Vol 12, Issue 4, p429
- ISSN
0002-8312
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3102/00028312012004429