Longitudinal Study of a “Student's Evaluation of Course” Including the Effects of a Professor's Life Experiences on Students' Evaluations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13656201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ralph Mason Dreger (Louisiana State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 563-588 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1997.81.2.563 |
| OpenAlex | W1966554617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
Issues of import to students' evaluations include accountability, improvement of teaching, anonymity, meaning and motivation of such evaluations, and validity and reliability. The very brief Student's Evaluation of Course, an entirely anonymous rating scale, is presented here for use only by the instructor, not for administrative purposes. Validity has been described previously. In this study, students' ratings of the six course-relevant items across a period of 35 years by one professor's students show that the ratings were affected by objectively determinable external events. Six specific hypotheses were set up and tested; five of these were borne out
Anonymity · Course (navigation · Developmental psychology · Mathematics education · Meaning (existential · Medical education · Period (music · Psychometrics · Rating scale · Reliability (semiconductor · Scale (ratio · Set (abstract data type · Validity · Applied Psychology · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education · Social Psychology · Student Assessment and Feedback
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2011 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |