Does the Attitude Similarity of College Professors and Their Students Produce “Bias” in Course Evaluations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8221750 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip C Abrami (0009-0006-7216-476X, Concordia University, corresponding author), Deborah A Mizener (McGill University) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-136 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011 |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/00028312020001123 |
| OpenAlex | W2041468607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
This study examined the relationship between student/teacher attitude similarity and teacher rating form (TRF) scores. Students (N = 345) completed a 24-item attitude scale, once for themselves and once for their instructors, and a 28-item TRF. The results indicated that TRF variance explained by total similarity was reduced by almost half when teacher effects were removed. Similarity of attitudes relevant to higher education was related to teacher ratings; similarity of irrelevant attitudes was not. The component scores (own attitudes, perceived attitudes) accounted for more TRF variability than assumed similarity. Of the component scores, only perceived attitudes accounted for a significant amount of TRF variance independent of other effects. We conclude that the unique variance explained by student/teacher attitude similarity is of minimum importance when evaluations are used to make gross distinctions (e.g., poor, acceptable, outstanding) among instructors
Component (thermodynamics · Developmental psychology · Mathematics education · Rating scale · Scale (ratio · Similarity (geometry · Statistics · Variance (accounting · Variance components · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Educational Leadership and Administration · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Professional Development and Motivation
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
The attraction paradigm
Students' Evaluation of an Instructor
Attitude Similarity and Attraction to an Instructor
Student Values and Teacher Evaluation
Dissimilarity and attraction
Student Ratings as Criteria for Effective Teaching
Student Ratings of Instruction and Their Relationship to Student Learning
Attraction as a linear function of proportion of positive reinforcements
Effectance arousal and attraction
Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2012 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |