STUDENT RATINGS OF TEACHING: MYTHS, FACTS, AND GOOD PRACTICES

摘要

Myths about student ratings of teaching abound on every campus, usually accompanied by confident assurances that ratings are just popularity contests that reward entertainers and penalize the best teachers. (Remarkably, the second group always seems to include the ones doing the assuring.) Some years ago we surveyed the myths and summarized the extensive research that showed most of them to be wrong. Now it's 15 years later and a lot more research has been done, with similar outcomes. Unfortunately the myths are still alive and well, so here is the 2008 version of what "everyone knows" about student ratings and how much of that wisdom is supported by research.