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Article Title
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Colleges and universities are employing student evaluations of faculty with increasing frequency. On some campuses, the forms are used at the instructor's option and serve primarily as a source of feedback for faculty development purposes. Others require student evaluation of instruction and publish the results in academic "consumer's guides." Still others consider student evaluations of instruction in making decisions with regard to faculty salary increases, retention, tenure and promotion. The optional use of student ratings in order to improve instruction often evolves to the mandatory consideration of student rating data in making decisions about faculty retention, promotion and tenure. As this occurs it is important that the validity of these measures also increases. Unfortunately, however, not much is known about what student ratings of faculty really measure and experimental studies which can extend this knowledge base are virtually non-existent.
Publication Date
1974
Journal Title
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Volume
11
Issue
3
First Page
9
Last Page
17
Copyright
© Copyright 1974 by the Iowa Academy of Science
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Ware, John E. and Williams, Reed G.
(1974)
"An Experimental Study of the "Doctor Fox Effect","
Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 11:
No.
3, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol11/iss3/5