Analysing student evaluations of teaching: Comparing means and proportions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2011
Abstract
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) play a central role in modern academia. They are used for tenure, promotion, teaching improvement and other important decisions. One would think that the data collected from a SET would be analysed correctly, but such is typically not the case, as can be seen in this study later. Therefore we propose a correct method for analysing SET data. The present paper compares the two methods on a large data-set of actual SETs. We show that the traditional method can misrepresent a teacher's performance, and that the traditional method can be extremely sensitive to outliers; neither of these characteristics is desirable. In contrast, the proposed method appears to suffer from neither of these defects. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.
Publication Title
Evaluation and Research in Education
Recommended Citation
McCullough, B.,
&
Radson, D.
(2011).
Analysing student evaluations of teaching: Comparing means and proportions.
Evaluation and Research in Education,
24(3), 183-202.
http://doi.org/10.1080/09500790.2011.603411
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/9329
