Background Research

The FCQ Redesign Committee leveraged research from various disciplines regarding the efficacy of capturing and using student feedback to both rate teachers and provide meaningful feedback for teaching improvement. Below is a list of many of the articles available in fields such as economics, education and psychology. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all of the research available on student class ratings but is mean to provide a starting point for anyone interested in reading more.

• Ackerman, D., Gross, B. L., & Vigneron, F. (2009). Peer observation reports and student evaluations of teaching: Who are the experts?. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 55(1), 18
• Basow, S., Codos, S., & Martin, J. (2013). The effects of professors' race and gender on student evaluations and performance. College Student Journal,47(2), 352-363.
• Boysen, G. A., Kelly, T. J., Raesly, H. N., & Casner, R. W. (2014). The (mis) interpretation of teaching evaluations by college faculty and administrators.Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 39(6), 641-656.
• Braga, M., Paccagnella, M., & Pellizzari, M. (2014). Evaluating students’ evaluations of professors. Economics of Education Review, 41, 71-88.
• Carrell, S. E., & West, J. E. (2008). Does professor quality matter? Evidence from random assignment of students to professors (No. w14081). National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Cashin, W. E. (1988). Student Ratings of Teaching: A Summary of the Research. IDEA Paper No. 20.
• Cashin WE. 1995.  Student Ratings of Teaching: The Research Revisited.  IDEA Paper No. 32.  
• Cashin WE. 1995.  Developing an Effective Faculty Evaluation System.  IDEA Paper No. 33.  
• Decristan, J., Klieme, E., Kunter, M., Hochweber, J., Büttner, G., Fauth, B., ... & Hardy, I. (2015). Embedded Formative Assessment and Classroom Process Quality How Do They Interact in Promoting Science Understanding?.American Educational Research Journal, 52(6), 1133-1159.
• Ernst, D. (2014). Expectancy theory outcomes and student evaluations of teaching. Educational Research and Evaluation, 20(7-8), 536-556.
• Galbraith, C. S., & Merrill, G. B. (2012). Predicting student achievement in university-Level business and economics classes: Peer observation of classroom instruction and student ratings of teaching effectiveness. College Teaching, 60(2), 48-55.
• Greenwald, A. G. (1997). Validity concerns and usefulness of student ratings of instruction. American Psychologist, 52(11), 1182.
• Howard, G. S., & And, O. (1985). Construct validity of measures of college teaching effectiveness. Journal of Educational Psychology, 77(2), 187-96.
• Huybers, T. (2014). Student evaluation of teaching: the use of best–worst scaling. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 39(4), 496-513.
• Keeley, J., Smith, D., & Buskist, W. (2006). The Teacher Behaviors Checklist: Factor analysis of its utility for evaluating teaching. Teaching of Psychology,33(2), 84-91.
• Kremer, J. F. (1990). Construct validity of multiple measures in teaching, research, and service and reliability of peer ratings. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(2), 213-218. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.82.2.213
• Lattuca, L. R., & Domagal-Goldman, J. M. (2007). Using qualitative methods to assess teaching effectiveness. New Directions for Institutional Research, (136), 81-93.
• MacNell, L., Driscoll, A., & Hunt, A. N. (2015). What’s in a name: exposing gender bias in student ratings of teaching. Innovative Higher Education,40(4), 291-303.
• McKeachie, W. J. (1979). Student ratings of faculty: A reprise. Academe: Bulletin Of The AAUP, 65(6), 384-97.
• 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. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.82.2.250
• Renaud, R. D., & Murray, H. G. (1996). Aging, personality, and teaching effectiveness in academic psychologists. Research in Higher Education, 37(3), 323-40.
• Spooren, P., Brockx, B., & Mortelmans, D. (2013). On the validity of student evaluation of teaching: the state of the art. Review of Educational Research, 83(4), 598-642.  Full text: http://0-rer.sagepub.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/content/early/2013/08/12/0034654313496870.full.pdf+html
• Sundstrom, E. D., Hardin, E.E., & Shaffer, M.J. (2016).  Extra credit micro-incentives and response rates for online course evaluations: Two quasi-experiments.  Teaching of Psychology, 43(4), 276-284.
• Weinberg, B. A., Hashimoto, M., & Fleisher, B. M. (2009). Evaluating teaching in higher education. The Journal of Economic Education, 40(3), 227-261.
• Zhao, J., & Gallant, D. J. (2012). Student evaluation of instruction in higher education: Exploring issues of validity and reliability. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 37(2), 227-235.