Article: relation of course, instructor, and student characteristics to dimensions of student ratings of teaching effectiveness.

Article: Predicting job performance from background ...
Public Personnel Management;  September 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... guidance on whether specific background characteristics predict good performance. To ... between several academic/work background characteristics and performance appraisal scores ... whether they can rely on specific background characteristics to predict employee success ...

Article: First-generation college students at a four-year university: ...
College Student Journal;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... study examined the background characteristics of first-generation ... been done on the background characteristics of first-generation ... examined (a) the background characteristics of these students ...

Article: Impact of Student Background Characteristics on ...
NACTA Journal;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... important to understanding how students' background characteristics impact success at the collegiate level ... better predicted by using other student background characteristics as performance indicators (Cole and Fanno ...

Article: Readers' background characteristics and their ...
Technical Communication;  August 1, 2002 ;     491 words ...M. de Jong and P. Schellens. 2001. Journal of technical writing and communication 31, no, 3:267-281. "What is the influence of demographic variables such as gender and education level on the reader feedback collected under the plus-minus method? To answer this question, an analysis was made of the

Article: The effects of academic environment and background ...
College Student Journal;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...In the increasingly competitive markets for high quality students entering colleges or universities, this article examines and evaluates factors affecting student behavior and performance at a historically black college or university such as South Carolina State University. Specifically, the study

Article: Online Student Ratings of Instruction
College and University;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Online Student Ratings of Instruction EDITED BY D. L ... functions" (p. i). Thus, online student-ratings systems are not inconceivable ... the already existent problems of student ratings. As indicated by Theall (2000 ...

Article: BYU student ratings of professors may not improve ...
University Wire;  December 15, 2006 ;     698 words ... ... for the past four months. This is where student ratings come in to play. Student ratings are a fairly simple concept. Students ... students have similar attitudes toward student ratings. D. Lynn Sorenson, the assistant director ...