Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness Does Faculty Profile Really Matter?
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The purpose of this study was to examine whether faculty profile plays a role in student’s evaluation of teaching effectiveness. Specifically, this paper looks into the level and significant difference of teaching effectiveness among Western Visayas College of Science and Technology (WVCST) faculty when grouped according to gender, age, highest educational degree, length of service, academic rank and discipline. The samples were WVCST faculty members and students. Samples were derived by systematic and stratified and convenience sampling, respectively. Students were asked to evaluate and rate their teacher using “The QCE of NBC 461 Instrument for Instruction/Teaching Effectiveness”. Findings reveal that teaching effectiveness when grouped as to gender, age, highest educational degree, length of service, academic rank and discipline was “outstanding”. Teaching effectiveness yielded statistical difference between faculty gender, length of service, academic discipline and rank, but no statistical differences were found between age and highest educational degree.
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Arbuckle, J., & Williams, B. D. (2003). Students’ perceptions of expressiveness: Age and gender effects on teacher evaluations. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 49(9-10), 507-516.
Bachen, C. M., McLoughlin, M. M., & Garcia, S. (1999). Assessing the role of gender in college students’ evaluation of faculty. Communication Education, 48, 193-210.”
Basow, S. A. (2000). Best and worst professors: Gender patterns in students’ choices. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 34, 407-417.
Basow, S. A., & Distenfeld, M. S. (1985). Teacher expressiveness: More important for Males than females? Journal of Educational Psychology, 77, 45-52.
Basow, S. A., & Silberg, N. T. (1987). Student evaluations of college professors: Are female and male professors rated differently? Journal of Educational Psychology, 79(3), 308-314.
Bennett, S.K. (1982). Student perceptions of and expectations for male and female instructors: Evidence relating to the question of gender bias in teaching evaluation. Journal of Educational Psychology 74: 170–9.
Beran, T. and Violato, C. (2005). Ratings of University Teacher Instruction: How Much Do Student and Course Characteristics Really Matter? Assessment & Evaluation in higher Education Vol. 30, No. 6, December 2005, pp. 593-601.
Brandenburg, D.C., J.A. Slinde, and E.E. Batista. (1977). Student ratings of instructor: Validity and normative interpretations. Research in Higher Education 7: 67–78.
Braskamp, L. A., & Ory, J. C. (1994). Assessing faculty work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Cashin, W.E. (1990). Students do rate different academic fields differently. In Student ratings of instruction: Issues for improving practice. New directions for teaching and learning, Vol. 43, ed. M. Theall and J. Franklin, 113–21. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Centra, J. A., & Gaubatz, N. B. (2000). Is there gender bias in student evaluations of teaching? Journal of Higher Education, 70(1), 17-30
Centra, J.A., and F.R. Creech. (1976). The relationship between student, teacher, and course characteristics and student ratings of teacher effectiveness. Project report, 76–1. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
Centra, JA. and Gaubatz, NB.(1999). Is there Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching?. Downloaded from: http://www.edcc.edu/facultydev/documents/IsthereGenderBias.pdf
Chang, TS. and Ross, Robert A. The Influence of Instructor, Student and Course Characteristics on Student Ratings: What do Faculty and Students Believe?
Chen, GH. And Watkins, D. (2010). Stability and Correlates of Student Evaluations of Teaching at a Chinese University. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Vol.35, No.6, October 2010, 675 – 685. Downloaded from: http://www.gdufs.biz/chen-2010a.pdf
Chen, Y. and Hoshower, LB. (2003). Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness: an assessment of student perception and motivation. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol.28, No.1, 2003
Cohen, P. A. (1981). Student ratings of instruction and student achievement: A meta analysis of multisection validity studies. Review of Educational Research, 51(3), 281-309.
Feldman, K. A. (1988). Effective college teaching from the students’ and facultys’ view: Matched or mismatched priorities. Research in Higher Education, 28(4), 291-344.
Feldman, K. A. (1992). College students’ views of male and female college teachers: Part I Evidence from the social laboratory and experiments. Research in Higher Education, 33(3), 317-351.
Feldman, K. A. (1993). College students’ views of male and female college teachers: Part II Evidence from students’ evaluations of their classroom teachers. Research in Higher Education, 34(2), 151-211.
Feldman, K. A. (2007). Identifying exemplary teachers and teaching: Evidence from student ratings. In R. Perry & J. Smart (Eds.), The scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education: An evidence-based perspective (pp. 93-129). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Feldman, K.A. (1978). Course characteristics and college students’ ratings of their teachers: What we know and what we don’t. Research in Higher Education 9: 199–242.
Feldman, K.A. (1983). Seniority and experience of college teachers as related to evaluations they receive. Research in Higher Education 18: 3–124.
Feldman, KA. Research Productivity and Scholarly Accomplishment of College Teachers as Related to their Instructional Effectiveness: A Review and Exploration.
Goodwin, L. D., & Stevens, E. A. (1993). The influence of gender on university facultymembers’ perceptions of “good” teaching. Journal of Higher Education, 64(2), 166-185.
Greenwald, A. G., & Gillmore, G. M. (1997). No pain, no gain? The importance of measuring course workload in student ratings of instruction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 89, 743-751.
Hancock, G. R., Shannon, D. M., & Trentham, L. I. (1992). Student and teacher gender in ratings of university faculty: Results from five colleges of study. Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 6, 235-248.
Hativa, N. (1996). University instructors’ ratings profiles: Stability over time, and disciplinary differences. Research in Higher Education, 37(3), 341-365.
Hoyt, DP. And Pallett, WH. (1999). Appraising Teaching Effectiveness: Beyond Student Ratings. IDEA Center. Downloaded from: http://www.roanestate.edu/feva/training/ideapaper36.pdf
Kelly, M. and University, WL. (2012). Student Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness: Considerations for Ontario Universities
Kierstead, D., P. D’Agostino, and H. Dill. (1988). Sex role stereotyping of college professors: Bias in students’ ratings of instructors. Journal of Educational Psychology 80: 342–4.
Koblitz, N. (1990). Are student ratings unfair to women? Newsletter of the Association forWomen in Mathematics 20: 17–9.
Marsh, H. W. (1987). Students’ evaluations of university teaching: Research findings, methodological issues, and directions for further research. International Journal of Educational Research, 11, 253-388.
Marsh, H.W., and M.J. Dunkin. (1992). Students’ evaluation of university teaching: A multidimensional perspective. In Higher education: Handbook of theory and research, Vol. 8, ed. J. C. Smart, 143–234. New York: Agathon.
Murray, H. G., Rushton, J. P., & Paunonen, S. V. (1990). Teacher personality traits and student instructional ratings in six types of university courses. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(2), 250-261.
Rutland, P. (1990). Some considerations regarding teaching evaluations. Political Science Teacher 3: 1–2.
Sandler, B. R. (1991). Women faculty at work in the classroom, or, why it still hurts to be a woman in labor. Communication Education, 40, 6-15.
Sumrall, JG. (2002). Factors Which Influence Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions of Distance Education in Analytical Subject Areas. A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Downloaded from: http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/skerby/articles/Sumrall_dis_factors_influence_perceptions_de.pdf
Tatro, C. N. (1995). Gender effects on student evaluations of faculty. Journal of Research and Development in Education, 28(3), 169-173.
Young, S., Rush, L. and Shaw, D. (2009). Evaluating Gender Bias in Ratings of University Instructor’s Teaching Effectiveness. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Vol.3, No. 3. ISSN 1931-4744 @ Georgia Southern University. Downloaded from: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/documents/academicrigor/StudentEvals/DOC010.PDF