Re: Student/Faculty Evaluations and Grades - Correlations

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

I would doubt it.  Aren't most tenure committee proceedings confidential?
Also, no committee would admit to going solely on student evals, so the
public outcome of the tenure decisions couldn't be used.  It would take a
rare case of public proceedings with some kind of numerical scale for evals
to get a quantized relationship.  In other words, people are chasing
phantoms here.  Unless you know EXACTLY how student eval data is used in
decisions of tenure, promotion, retention, etc. you can't do meaningful
stats (if there are such things ;-).

Rick

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Green" <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Student/Faculty Evaluations and Grades - Correlations


> Is there somewhere a stat assessment of the relation between student
> evaluation scores and tenure committee appraisal?

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.