Re: Are student evaluations useful?

["Donald E. Simanek" <dsimanek@eagle.lhup.edu>]

You will find documents on student evaluation, with references to the
literatrue on published studies at the web site of the Society for A
Return to Academic Standards. 

http://www.bus.lsu.edu/accounting/faculty/lcrumbley/sfrtas.html

The studies clearly indicate that these instruments are not evaluations of
teacher or course quality, but merely measures of student satisfaction.
Unfortunately some schools *use* them as if they were measures of teacher
effectiveness.

	-- Donald

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