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Journal article
A comparison of student evaluations of teaching with online and paper-based administration
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
2017
Abstract
When institutions administer student evaluations of teaching (SET) online, response rates are lower relative to paper-based administration. Researchers analyzed average SET scores from 364 courses taught during the fall term in 3 consecutive years to determine whether administering SET forms online for all courses in the third year changed the response rate or the average SET score. To control for instructor characteristics, the data analysis was based on courses for which the same instructor taught the course in each of three successive fall terms. Response rates for face-to-face classes declined when SET administration occurred only online. Although average SET scores were reliably lower in Year 3 than in the previous two years, the magnitude of this change was minimal (.11 on a five-item Likert-like scale). The authors discuss practical implications of these findings for interpretation of SETs and the role of SETs for the evaluation of teaching quality.
Details
- Title
- A comparison of student evaluations of teaching with online and paper-based administration
- Publication Details
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association; United States
- Copyright
- American Psychological Association (2017)
- Identifiers
- 99380090336506600
- Academic Unit
- Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
- Language
- English