Evaluating student evaluations of teaching: A review of measurement and equity bias in SETs and recommendations for ethical reform

RJ Kreitzer, J Sweet-Cushman - Journal of Academic Ethics, 2021 - Springer
Student evaluations of teaching are ubiquitous in the academe as a metric for assessing
teaching and frequently used in critical personnel decisions. Yet, there is ample evidence …

Student evaluations of teaching encourages poor teaching and contributes to grade inflation: A theoretical and empirical analysis

W Stroebe - Basic and applied social psychology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) do not measure teaching effectiveness,
and their widespread use by university administrators in decisions about faculty hiring …

On students'(mis) judgments of learning and teaching effectiveness

SK Carpenter, AE Witherby, SK Tauber - … of Applied research in Memory and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Students' judgments of their own learning are often misled by intuitive yet false ideas about
how people learn. In educational settings, learning experiences that minimize effort and …

Why good teaching evaluations may reward bad teaching: On grade inflation and other unintended consequences of student evaluations

W Stroebe - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, I address the paradox that university grade point averages have increased for
decades, whereas the time students invest in their studies has decreased. I argue that one …

Are student evaluations of teaching effectiveness valid for measuring student learning outcomes in business related classes? A neural network and bayesian analyses

CS Galbraith, GB Merrill, DM Kline - Research in Higher Education, 2012 - Springer
In this study we investigate the underlying relational structure between student evaluations
of teaching effectiveness (SETEs) and achievement of student learning outcomes in 116 …

Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys

NE Winstone, R Ajjawi, K Dirkx… - Studies in Higher …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing prominence of neoliberal agendas in international higher education has led
to greater weight being ascribed to student satisfaction, and the national surveys through …

Can professors buy better evaluation with lenient grading? The effect of grade inflation on student evaluation of teaching

Z Berezvai, GD Lukáts, R Molontay - Assessment & Evaluation in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
At many universities, student evaluations of teaching (SET) are used for determining
promotion, tenure, and other financial benefits for professors, which gives incentive for them …

Design fixation: Classifications and modern methods of prevention

RJ Youmans, T Arciszewski - AI EDAM, 2014 - cambridge.org
The term design fixation is often used interchangeably to refer to situations where designers
limit their creative output because of an overreliance on features of preexisting designs, or …

The student evaluation of teaching and likability: what the evaluations actually measure

D Clayson - Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
For several decades research into the student evaluation of teaching has periodically found
an association between how well students like an instructor and the evaluations. The …

Do the best teachers get the best ratings?

N Kornell, H Hausman - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
We review recent studies that asked: do college students learn relatively more from teachers
whom they rate highly on student evaluation forms? Recent studies measured learning at …