> Students are notoriusly bad at rating their professors
I wonder whether this was because they weren't asked the right questions.
The Air Force survey [1] seemed to have more broad, abstract questions like "The instructor's effectiveness in facilitating my learning in the course was good/bad/etc." or "Value of questions and problems raised by instructor was good/bad/etc." or "Amount you learned in the course was lots/little/etc."
The Gates survey [2] seemed to have more fine-grained, specific questions like "My teacher knows when the class understands." and "My classmates behave the way the teacher wants them to." and "The comments I get help me know how to improve."
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> Students are notoriusly bad at rating their professors
I wonder whether this was because they weren't asked the right questions.
The Air Force survey [1] seemed to have more broad, abstract questions like "The instructor's effectiveness in facilitating my learning in the course was good/bad/etc." or "Value of questions and problems raised by instructor was good/bad/etc." or "Amount you learned in the course was lots/little/etc."
The Gates survey [2] seemed to have more fine-grained, specific questions like "My teacher knows when the class understands." and "My classmates behave the way the teacher wants them to." and "The comments I get help me know how to improve."
[1] http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/staiger/files/carre...
[2] http://www.metproject.org/downloads/Asking_Students_Practiti...