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Re: [Phys-L] [PHYSHARE] SETs under attack again. . .


On 2013, Jun 22, , at 13:23, Richard Hake <rrhake@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
........


NO LONGER? In "Re: Problems with Student Evaluations: Is Assessment
the Remedy?" [Hake (2002a)] at <http://bit.ly/hjt9ll> I wrote
(paraphrasing): "Neither Cohen nor any other SET champion has
countered the fatal objection of McKeachie (1987) at
<http://bit.ly/18Ou9t6> that the evidence for the validity of SETs as
gauges of the cognitive impact of courses rests for the most part on
measures of students' *lower-level* thinking as exhibited in course
grades or exams."


........

These people, evidently haven't read Hake and McK.

"A large body of research on SET supports the value and reliability of well-designed student evaluations. It has also helped documenteffective practices for carrying out this kind of evaluation. "

Student Evaluation of Teaching


http://www.celt.iastate.edu/set/


bc think SETs are very good at gauging the "likeness" of a teacher, but then Facebook works, also.