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Article: Student ratings of teaching effectiveness for faculty groups based on race and gender.(Report)
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- Education
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- June 22, 2009
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Introduction
End-of-course student evaluations of teaching effectiveness have been conducted in most institutions of higher education since the 1960s. Student evaluations of teaching effectiveness are used primarily for feedback to faculty for instructional improvement and for making personnel and administrative decisions such as promotion and tenure, merit increases, and awards whether local or national (Marsh & Roche, 1993; Abrami, d'Apollonia, & Rosenfield, 1997). Both of these rationales for use of student evaluations are somewhat controversial (Rifkin, 1995; Donahue, 2000). While student evaluations of teaching effectiveness are the most common measure of ...