On the Invalidity of Student Ratings for Administrative Personnel Decisions
- 3 November 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Higher Education
- Vol. 46 (6) , 687-700
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.1975.11778669
Abstract
With an increased demand for more careful assessment of teaching, administrators are incorporating student ratings of instructional effectiveness into their personnel decisions. Yet a variety of findings makes questionable the validity of this use of student ratings. The purpose of this paper is to review these findings to place the administrative use of student ratings into a proper perspective. Comparability of student ratings, sources of invalidity, and a proposal for the use of student rating data are discussed.Keywords
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