By visiting the web site they can click on the name of any professors and see their rating in more detail. Rating from overall quality, helpfulness, clarity, easiness, and hotness.…
A common problem faced by incoming and returning students alike, is the task of selecting unfamiliar professors. Obviously, all students hope to select a good professor, but it is often a shot in the dark when selecting classes for the upcoming year. To combat this, I sat in on two different sections of the general education course. The course I chose was ECO 155 Principles of Macroeconomics. One section is taught by Dr. Julie Gallaway, and another section is taught by Dr. Mahua Mitra. My goal was to compare the two different teachers, and ultimately give my opinion on who was the better professor, using criteria such as organization, teaching style, and availability for questions, among others.…
Variations in raters’ judgments can happen either across raters, known as inter-rater reliability or in the consistency of one single rater, called intra-rater reliability. They have a variety of aspects which can influence the judgment of a scorer, and two raters might give different conclusions about similar performances. Besides the more obvious reasons for controversy, like differences in experience or lack of agreed-upon scoring routines, it has been reported that things like teachers’ attitudes regarding students’ ethnicity, as well as the content, may also influence the rating of students’ work (Davidson, Howell, & Hoekema, 2000).…
Alicia Shepard, a college professor, addresses a very touchy subject in her story “A’s for Everyone”. Many of her students often argue that “hard work” should be taken into consideration when the professor is calculating final grades. However, college students should be strictly graded for the work they turn in because it is unfair to other students, it teaches them a sense of self worth, and because it is a good dose of reality.…
One of the major challenges today, with the sheer amount of information available at your fingertips via the Web, is determining the reliability of the information presented. It can be quite difficult to determine the quality, authenticity, and authority of the information you encounter. However, there are a number of tools and skills at your disposal that help to determine if the information you find is trustworthy and of academic quality. Watch the Evaluating Websites tutorial to learn more about how to determine the quality of information found on the Web. Review the tutorial: “Evaluating Websites,” located at http://tutorials.gcumedia.com/evaluatingWebTutorial/vp02.swf…
College students assume they already know a great deal about the world around them. Currently, they are being presented with a wide selection of information. As a result they may have to unlearn an accumulated wealth of misinformation in addition to absorbing the priceless new pearls of wisdom teachers toss their way. Teaching college students how to evaluate information has become a critical role for the instructors.…
An example of these problems is in the category of “faculty resource”. U.S. News uses “faculty salary” and “percentage of faculty with the highest degree in their field” to measure the quality of a student’s contacts with faculty. However, some educational researches show that salaries and degree attainment have nothing to do with educational quality.…
When college professors evaluate students, should those grades be based on performance only? On the other hand, should part of that evaluation be predicated on the requirement that students have to attend class regularly? This issue of making classroom attendance a significant part of students’ overall grades is what author Chris Piper discusses in his article, “‘A’ Is for ‘Absent.’” Writing from a student’s perspective, a student who himself has been subjected to such attendance policies, Piper asserts that this practice is both unfair to students and ultimately detrimental to their overall learning. He outlines the logic professors use to justify attendance policies, but suggests counterarguments and alternative approaches to grading standards…
One thing that universities and organizations share in common is that they feel the need to evaluate the performance of its people, whether those people are students or employees. Universities face a growing problem of “grade inflation” in which professors give all students high grades so that he or she will be perceived favorably by students. This is a…
Cited: Kim, Wendy. “Grading Professors.” The St. Martin’s Guide 2010. Axelrod New York: Bedford,2010. 389-394 Print.…
Phelan, C. and Wren, J. (2005) Exploring Reliability in Academic Assessment. UNI Office of Academic Assessment. Retrieved March 30th, 2014 from: http://www.uni.edu/chfasoa/reliabilityandvalidity.htm…
Bedard, K. & Kuhn, P. (2008). Where class size really matters: class size and student ratings of instructor effectiveness. Economics of Education Review, 27(3), 253-265. doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2006.08.007.…
Georgia State University College of Business ran a voluntary pilot from 2002 to 2003 using an identical online version of their paper course evaluation form in the Department of Computer information Systems. Faculty feared an online form would yield lower scores and lower response rates. In particular, the fear was that few students would submit online evaluations, poor students would “take revenge” on the faculty and good students wouldn’t bother. The paper form had a 67% response rate and the online form had an 82% response rate. This likely due to the fact that the CIS department had easy access to computer labs for students to take the evaluations online. Using a question on teacher effectiveness, the study found no significant difference between the methods. Good students participated in the same numbers and weaker students did fewer online evaluations.…
1. According to Ken Bain, the author of What the Best College Teachers Do [Harvard University Press, 2004], the actual classroom performance of…
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