Electronic Course Evaluations: Does an Online Delivery System Influence Student Evaluations?

Student Perceptions of Online Learning: An Analysis of Online Course Evaluations

Online Student Evaluations and Response Rates Reconsidered

The increased adoption of online student evaluations from 2% in 2000 to almost 33% in 2005 by a variety of institutions reporting to Brigham Young University's Online Student Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Education (OnSET) Web resource has not been without controversy. The major concern voiced about online course evaluations is reduced response rates from the students. However, our experienc...

An evaluation of course evaluations

Student ratings of teaching have been used, studied, and debated for almost a century. This article examines student ratings of teaching from a statistical perspective. The common practice of relying on averages of student teaching evaluation scores as the primary measure of teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure decisions should be abandoned for substantive and statistical reasons: Th...

Are online student evaluations of faculty influenced by the timing of evaluations?

Student evaluations of faculty are important components of the medical curriculum and faculty development. To improve the effectiveness and timeliness of student evaluations of faculty in the physiology course, we investigated whether evaluations submitted during the course differed from those submitted after completion of the course. A secure web-based system was developed to collect student e...

Student Psychological Need Satisfaction and College Teacher-Course Evaluations

Two studies examined student psychological need satisfaction as a predictor of positive teacher-course evaluations. In Study 1, 268 undergraduates recalled and rated the quality of a recent important college course, then rated their feelings of autonomy, competence, and relatedness within that course. Consistent with self-determination theory, all three ratings predicted instructor and/or cours...