RateMyProfessors.com offers biased evaluations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19377889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela M Legg (0000-0001-7580-8395, Georgia Southern University), Janie H Wilson (0000-0003-3798-582X, Georgia Southern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-97 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-2938 • E-ISSN: 1469-297X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02602938.2010.507299 |
| OpenAlex | W2075909727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 17 |
RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) is becoming an increasingly popular tool among students, faculty and school administrators. The validity of RMP is a point of debate; many would argue that self‐selection bias obscures the usefulness of RMP evaluations. In order to test this possibility, we collected three types of evaluations: RMP evaluations that existed at the beginning of our study, traditional in‐class evaluations and RMP evaluations that were prompted after we collected in‐class evaluations. We found differences in the types of evaluations students provide for their professors for both perceptions of professor clarity and ratings of professor easiness. Based on these results, conclusions drawn from RMP are suspect and indeed may offer a biased view of professors
CLARITY · Perception · Suspect · Applied Psychology · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Management and Marketing Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
Students’ perceptions of effective teaching
Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation
I checked the prof on ratemyprofessors
Determinants of online professor reviews
Affordances and negotiations of the digital reputation society
Understanding the perceived quality of professors’ teaching effectiveness in various disciplines
Reciprocity in college teaching
Students’ online evaluation of teaching and system continuance usage intention
How student evaluations of teaching affect course enrollment
Evaluation of instruction
Correlations, trends and potential biases among publicly accessible web-based student evaluations of teaching
First Impressions
Does ratemyprofessor.com really rate my professor
How do we rate? An evaluation of online student evaluations
Web-based student evaluations of professors
Attractiveness, easiness and other issues
Grading leniency is a removable contaminant of student ratings
Grading leniency is a removable contaminant of student ratings
Computer-Mediated Word-of-Mouth Communication on RateMyProfessors.com
I liked your course because you taught me well
Bad is Stronger than Good
| Citations per year | 0.92 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |