Student ratings of instructions (SRIs) are often criticized because many professors do easy grading with expectations of high SRIs. If student grades are highly correlated with SRIs at a college/university, does that mean low credibility of SRIs?
Student ratings for the teacher as a whole are not credible because they are based primarily on emotion and the student's mark in the course. The female teacher takes a higher rating than the male teacher and so on ...
From experience ( by practice) many students link their rating with their instructor interactions. Most of the feedback are generated based behind their grades and how they feel that instructor redeemed all of their perceived gaps without them go and learn about it.
Student ratings for the teacher as a whole are not credible because they are based primarily on emotion and the student's mark in the course. The female teacher takes a higher rating than the male teacher and so on ...
Student ratings of instructor are not credible if they correlate with students’ grade.
Student ratings for the instructor are not logical and lack of credibility.
I think that it depends on the situation. I remember that I rated as low even if I got a A. This is because I did not think that I learned a lot from the class. So it is not necessarily related to a student' grade.
I think that students' constructive comments are very valuable. Also, we may be able to compare students' grades and their ratings after removing outliers. It is just my opinion.
In this case, the evaluation can not be relied upon because it loses its credibility
It is absolutely true Sir...
For some teachers it is true. For some teachers, the opposite is true.
Very interesting question.
Interesting question, Agree with Maham, for some teachers it is ture and for some it is opposite
I do not understand why the majority who comment on this question, say that if the degree of the instructor is analogous to the students, is not credible, if so, then presentations, seminars, among others; They had no validity, I consider, as I have always said, that the ratings do not determine any student, but is an element to be taken into account, if you want to know if a student really knows, take it to practice and show what you know
Right, it is more important for instructors to evaluate students' performances in various ways. Commonly, high performers tend to highly rate their instructors' abilities as well, vice versa. So it is required to remove such students' subjective tendency on the instructors' abilities.
Some recent research studies suggest that Grades are considered an evaluation of students work, grades accuracy and fairness reflect the quality students work. Please see the attachments!
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Student ratings of instructor are not credible if they correlate with students’ grade.
Dear Ivan David Lozada Martinez , my understanding is that majority are not referring to the degree of instructors but the student evaluations of the professor at the conclusion of the course.
Generally not. I have an example. I teach a cloned course and the general requirements include writing a specific number of sentences in writing assignments. I, therefore, cannot change that. Students mark me down for holding them to the class requirements. That would imply students do not evaluate the teaching as much as an instructor's insistence that the students meet the minimum course requirements. In a sense, the lower my evaluation, the more likely I am to be doing what I am supposed to be doing AND, therefore, make it (somewhat) easier on the students' future instructors. By the way, the minimum requirement is ten sentences, in most assignments. Perhaps the SRI might imply an inverse relationship of some sort?
Human beings' evaluation is not free from bias; no matter, how effective the objective criteria of evaluation is; if the assesser is human being, there are always the chances of biasness.
As I see it, this mainly depends o culture. Some ratings ,especially the ones conducted by clever students, is credible and reliable to a certain extent. For most average students, the rating is not mostly reliable as it can be subject to their attitudes towards their teachers.
Not very credible, and I totally agree with @Nancy Bosalis! Often times the rating the instructors receive from the students are based on emotions.
I strongly agree with @ Nancy Bosalis , @Eleanor Hewitt, @ Nazia Asad and @ Hazim Al Dilaimy. On one hand it is the emotional side, I mean, students do not evaluate the teacher academic performance, but their social skills. On the other, the spiteful attitude of the students. If the teacher doesn't give the grades the students expect, then they evaluate very low to the teachers. And finally, as Hazim says, it is also a matter of culture. I just went through this issue this semester. A student of mine, who failed the course told me: "Teacher, this is not possible, I evaluated your work with a high grade." So I would say they can't be very reliable since they depend on students' different points of view.
I would make one word change to María Librada Cruz Báypoli's comment, but the change in word has a major change in meaning, I think.
From: "If the teacher doesn't give the grades the students expect, ..." to "If the teacher doesn't give the grades the students want, ..."
In most courses, students get evaluated throughout the term, right? How many do not seem to check the gradebook and realize they are not doing well? Then there are those who acknowledge their grades, but still seem to think they will earn As. I suspect that anyone here who has taught more than two years has seen a few students who, in some form, make comments to indicate they think they are doing well. The instructor, on the other hand, is shaking his or her head and wondering why a score in the 40s is good.....
Maybe the issue is that student evaluations reflect a disconnect between what the students expect and what they earn.
I remember an article in the Journal of College Science Teaching in 1998 0r 1999 where the author demonstrated that the instructor's rating by students happens already before the end of the first week of class. Therefore, how instructors present themselves at the very beginning of the new term and what efforts they make to create a positive and engaging learning environment are seminal points that most students will consider to evaluate professors and their teaching.
María Librada Cruz Báypoli , Nazia Asad , Hazim Al Dilaimy , Eman H. Utman , Aziz R. Nurul , thanks for sharing your insights.
Brian Fulknar , Robert J Walsh
, thank you for participating in this discussion.
Nancy Bosalis , Rama I. Ali Muhammad Faheem Jan , thank you for sharing your thoughts.
If the students expectation is marks, that allows students to evaluate positively the instructor if that is reached. The same will be said for deep learning and so on. For that, the negative student evaluations of an instructor isn't objective and show that there is no link between the students expectation and their earning.
Certainly student ratings for the teacher are not credible because they are based on the student's grades in the subjects.
Nancy Bosalis may very well be correct. The following article is a review of this subject (but only from 1998).
+ Wachtel, H. K. (1998). Student evaluation of college teaching effectiveness: A brief review. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 23(2), 191-212.
While I have not seen a meta-analysis on this topic since, the following articles since that review are interesting reads with the most recent becoming a very provocative article on the subject asserting that these evaluations are discriminatory and therefore illegal: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/student-evaluations-are-discriminatory-against-female-professors.html?fbclid=IwAR3Xh8qeEaErK-_A28qL8wxNBlNMPTKspfS7C0VdIHVtSKGnpT2lp-H59LI ):
Finding a significant difference:
+ Mitchell, K.M.W. & Martin, J. (2018) Gender bias in student evaluations. American Political Science Association, 51(3): 648-652.
+ Bachen, C. M., McLoughlin, M. M., & Garcia, S. S. (1999). Assessing the role of gender in college students’ evaluations of faculty. Communication Education, 48(3), 193-210.
Finding no difference:
+ Centra, J. A., & Gaubatz, N. B. (2000). Is there gender bias in student evaluations of teaching?. The journal of higher education, 71(1), 17-33.
Finding no difference in gender but a bias against Black Male Faculty:
+ Reid, L. D. (2010). The role of perceived race and gender in the evaluation of college teaching on RateMyProfessors. Com. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 3(3), 137.
If the SRIs have high correlation with grades, the grading sounds shady to day the least.
This system is not correct.Students can never judge the credibility of teacher.
La note n'a jamais été le bon moyen pour une évaluation crédible d'un étudiant.
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