1st Edition

A Comprehensive Critique of Student Evaluation of Teaching Critical Perspectives on Validity, Reliability, and Impartiality

By Dennis E. Clayson Copyright 2021
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This thought-provoking volume offers comprehensive analysis of contemporary research and literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in Higher Education. In evaluating data from fields including education, psychology, engineering, science, and business, this volume critically engages with the assumption that SET is a reliable and valid measure of effective teaching. Clayson navigates a... Read more

Chapter 1: Issues and Debates Surrounding Student Evaluations of Teaching

Chapter 2: Potential Impacts of Gender Bias on Student Evaluations

Chapter 3: The Influence of Personality Traits on Student Evaluations

Chapter 4: Halo Effects Impacting on Student Evaluations

Chapter 5: Questioning the Truthfulness of Student Evaluations

Chapter 6: Rigor, Grades and how they Impact on Student Evaluations

Chapter 7: The Association between Student Learning and Student Evaluations

Chapter 8: Student Evaluations and the Improvement of Instruction

Chapter 9: Challenging the Statistical Reliability of Student Evaluations

Chapter 10: Traditional Validity and SET

Chapter 11: Identifying Valid Applications of SET

Chapter 12: Validity and the Impacts of Subjectivity

Chapter 13: Introducing a Likability Hypothesis

Chapter 14: Justifications of the Likability Hypothesis

Chapter 15: Conclusion and Recommendations – the Future of SET

Biography

Dennis Clayson is Professor Emeritus in the College of Business Administration at the University of Northern Iowa, US.