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Tips on Administering Student Rating Forms
Madison, Wis.—November 13— Student ratings can provide insights into the effectiveness of faculty members’ teaching, but it should be only one of several sources of information on teaching performance.
Dr. Raoul A. Arreola, the assistant dean for assessment in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, shared this and other advice during his Nov. 13 online seminar “Student Ratings: Their Design, Construction, and Use.”
During the workshop, Dr. Arreola explained a 10-step process for designing and constructing a student rating form and offered the following advice on administering student rating forms:
• Administer student rating forms at the beginning of a regular class
• Do not administer student rating forms a week before, the day of, or a week after a major examination or assignment deadline
• Administer student rating forms in accordance with a specified protocol that explains to students that their ratings will not affect their grades
• Only the faculty member should receive the written comments on student rating
forms
Dr. Arreola shared information that can help administrators to:
• Identify what aspects of faculty teaching performance are most appropriately measured by student rating forms
• Recognize the salient factors that determine whether a specific student rating form is valid and reliable
• Pinpoint what student rating items CAN and SHOULD measure
• Ascertain whether student rating items are well-written
• Specify the characteristics of a well-designed response scale for student rating items
• Determine if the response scale is appropriate to the items on the student rating form
• Make more effective use of student rating information in enhancing professional growth and development
• Apply strategies and techniques for administering student rating forms so as to increase the response rate
• See the pros and cons of using online student rating forms
• Cite relevant research on issues concerning student ratings and their relation (if any) to class size, gender of the instructor, grades, topic being taught, etc.
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