Student, faculty, and department chairmen ratings of instructors: Who agrees with whom?
Sagen H.B.
1974
Research in Higher Education
2
10.1007/BF00991170
The present study explored two related questions: 1) What is the level of agreement between student ratings of instruction, faculty self-ratings, and department chairmen ratings? 2) What aspects of instruction are considered most important by each group in determining overall instructional effectiveness? The study was conducted at a small liberal arts college and included 83 essentially full-time faculty. The resutls revealed little agreement regarding overall instructional effectiveness, and at best modest agreement between students and department chairmen concerning certain specific aspects of instruction such as the development of subject matter competence. Finally, students, in arriving at an assessment of overall instructional effectiveness, appeared to stress different dimensions of instruction than did faculty and department chairmen. © 1974 APS Publications, Inc.
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