Abstract:
This paper examines the use of student evaluations of teaching (SETs) to provide teacher improvement information. The results suggest that standard deviations or other distribution information offer useful information for helping instructor preparation. It appears, based upon this preliminary case study, that SETs must be administered carefully, reported fully, and analyzed completely.
Student evaluations of teaching (SETS) are commonly used and conventionally accepted methods of instructor evaluation. Recent studies by Broder and Taylor (1994) and Casavant and Worley (1994) have investigated the use of SETs to encourage improvements in teaching and to measure student response to the change. However, SETs are usually administered at the end of the teaching period, which does not give the instructor the opportunity to make "mid-course" adjustments in response to SETs. Using multiple SETs during a term allows mid-course adjustments to be evaluated by the same set of students and the dynamics of evaluations over the entire course to be investigated.
Keywords:
student evaluations
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