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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Bernard Cleyet
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:56 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] online student evaluations vs in-class
studentevaluations
If I remember correctly there was a thread in which a poster suggested
student evaluators did only harm -- the arguments were, IMAO, quite
cogent -- perhaps it was an IP published screed.
bc
rgrandy@pop.mail.rice.edu wrote:
I don't know about bias, but last spring when our administrationthe
switched from paper evaluations to onliine the response rate dropped
from around 90% to about 40%!
Richard Grandy
Rice University
Houston TX USA
It's time for student evaluations, and I have two choices. There's (a)
class,traditional method of giving the students a paper form to fill in in-
atand (b) an online version of the same form, presumably to be filled in
responsetheir convenience.
One might expect that the online version would produce a reduced
onrate. Only students with strong opinions (either positive or negative)
would actually take the time to respond to a survey if they're not put
thethe spot in a classroom. One could further imagine that this might bias
motivator.results, depending on which of these extremes is a more powerful
does
Does anyone know of a comparison between these two methodologies, and
aanyone have any anecdotal evidence that would suggest which way (if any)
_______________________________________________bias is induced?
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