' the Computers and Society AGORA agoo.ra (fig'o -ro) n. A marketplace in ancient Greece, customarily used as a place of popular assembly. For members of this popular assembly, we invite short, substantive communications tightly-focused around a single experience, issue, or theoretical point within the scope of this publication. Student Evaluations of Teaching" Broughtto You by Computer The Chronicle of Higher Education, the academy's trade paper, recently reported on the results of a little experiment with student evaluations undertaken by an inventive and skeptical professor. He found that teaching otherwise identical courses differing only in teaching style had quite different evaluations for such unrelated substantive items as the quality of the textbook! I was amused but not surprised at his little experiment, yet the reaction by the Chronicles published respondents conceded only that individual items on such surveys are neither specific nor sensitive. I believe that this attitude is probably unreflective of the attitude of the professoriate as a whole. Indeed, it is widely believed that these instruments are not a valid measure of teaching effectiveness (i.e., whether students learn, not whether they are made happy or, at least, comfortable) or a reliable measure of any variable (everyone
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Student evaluations of teaching: brought to you by computer
Fulda, Joseph S.
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, Volume 27 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1997
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