Course Evaluation Articles Available in the Library
Factors Affecting Course Evaluation Results
Abrami, P. C. & Mizener, D. A. (1983, Spring). Does the attitude similarity of college professors and their students produce "bias" in course evaluations? American Educational Research Journal, 20(1), 123-136.
Ambady, N. & Rosenthal, R. (1993, March). Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64(3), 431-441.
Anderson, K. & Miller, E. D. (1997, June). Gender and student evaluations of teaching. PS: Political Science and Politics, 30(2), 216-219.
Baker, P. L. & Copp, M. A. (1997, January). Gender matters most: The interaction of gendered expectations, feminist course content, and pregnancy in student course evaluations. Teaching Sociology, 25, 29-43.
Basow, S. A. (1995, December). Student evaluations of college professors: When gender matters. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87(4), 656-665.
Beatty, M. J. & Zahn, C. J. (1990, October). Are student ratings of communication instructors due to "easy" grading practices? An analysis of teacher credibility and student-reported performance levels. Communication Education, 39(4), 275-282.
Best, J. B. & Addison, W. E. (2000, Winter). A preliminary study of perceived warmth of warmth of professor an student evaluations. Teaching of Psychology, 27(1), 60-62.
Buck, S. & Tiene, D. (1989, January-February). The impact of physical attractiveness, gender, and teaching philosophy on teacher evaluations. Journal of Educational Research, 82(3), 172-177.
Cates, W. M. (1993). A small-scale comparison of the equivalence of paper-and-pencil and computerized versions of student end-of-course evaluations. Computers In Human Behavior, 9, 401-409.
Cranton, P. A. & Smith, R. A. (1990, June). Reconsidering the unit of analysis: A model of student ratings of instruction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(2), 207-212.
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), 317-375.
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.
Fernald, P. S. (1990, April). Students' ratings of instruction: Standardized and customized. Teaching of Psychology, 17(2), 105-109.
Freeman, H. R. (1994, December). Student evaluations of college instructors: Effects of type of course taught, instructor gender and gender role, and student gender. Journal of Educational Psychology, 86(4), 627-630.
Gigliotti, R. J. & Buchtel, F. S. (1990, June). Attributional bias and course evaluations. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(2), 341-351.
Goldberg, G. F. & Callahan, J. P. (1991, June). Comparative analyses of instructor ranking based on student evaluations. College Student Journal, 25(2), 198-200.
Hewett, L. & Others. (1988, January 1). Course evaluations: Are students' ratings dictated by first impressions? (Report No. HE021534). Idaho: Boise State University. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 296 664)
Hopefl, J. G. & Frey-Hartel, C. (1995, October 1). He's tough but she's mean: Gender differences in student evaluations (Report No. SO026581). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin System Conference on Women's Studies. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 398 124)
Johnson, G. A., Stratton, W. E., & Jolly, J. P. (1988). Factors affecting student course evaluations. The Organizational Behavior Teaching Review, 13(3), 112-125.
Kierstead, D., D'Agostino, P., & Dill, H. (1988, September). Sex role stereotyping of college professors: Bias in students' ratings of instructors. Journal of Educational Psychology, 80(3), 342-344.
Levin, W. C. (1988, March). Age stereotyping: College student evaluations. Research on Aging, 10(1), 134-148.
Lomo-David, E. & Hulbert, J. (1993, April). Instructor classroom behaviors and student academic success. Business Education Forum, 47(4), 12-15.
Lueck, T. L. & Others. (1993, August 1). Mass communication course evaluations: An exploratory study on the effect of gender (Report No. CS508314). Akron, OH: School of Communication, The University of Akron. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 361 802)
Marlin, J. W. & Gaynor, P. E. (1989, Summer). Do anticipated grades affect student evaluations? A discriminant analysis approach. College Student Journal, 23(2), 184-192.
McCroskey, J. C., Richmond, V. P., Sallinen, A., Fayer, J. M., & Barraclough, R. A. (1995, October). A cross-cultural and multi-behavioral analysis of the relationship between nonverbal immediacy and teacher evaluation. Communication Education, 44, 281-291.
Mehdizadeh, M. (1990, Winter). Loglinear models and student course evaluations. The Journal of Economic Education, 21(1), 7-21.
Moritsch, B. G. & Suter, W. N. (1988). Correlates of halo error in teacher evaluation. Educational Research Quarterly, 12(3), 29-34.
Munz, D. C. & Fallert, A. L. (1998, March). Does classroom setting moderate the relationship between student mood and teaching evaluations? Journal of Social Behavior & Personality, 13(1), 23-32.
Munz, D. C. & Munz, H. E. (1997). Student mood and teaching evaluations. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 12(1), 233-242.
Newstead, S. E. & Arnold, J. (1989, Spring). The effect of response format on ratings of teaching. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 49(1), 33-43.
Parish, T. S. & Necessary, J. R. (1994, December). Professors' interactional attributes: How do they relate to one another? Psychological Reports, 75(3, Part 1), 1215-1218.
Perkins, D., Guerin, D., & Schleh, J. (1990). Effects of grading standards information, assigned grade, and grade discrepancies on students' evaluations. Psychological Reports, 66, 635-642.
Petersen, T. M., Kearney, P., Plax, T. G., & Waldeck, J. H. (1997, Fall). Students' affective evaluations of the professor and course: To what extent is teacher sexism relevant? Women's Studies in Communication, 20(2), 151-165.
Sailor, P. & Worthen, B. R. (1997, September). Class level as a possible mediator of the relationship between grades and student ratings of teaching. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 22(3), 261-269.
Shaughnessy, M. F. & Neely, R. (1988, February). Evaluation of teachers: Effects of "outliers" on instructors' ratings.Psychological Reports, 62(1), 87-91.
Sidanius, J. & Crane, M. (1989, February). Job evaluation and gender: The case of university faculty. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 19(2), 174-197.
Tata, J. (1999, May). Grade distributions, grading procedures, and students' evaluations of instructors: A justice perspective. Journal of Psychology Interdisciplinary and Applied, 133(3), 263-271.
Tatro, C. N. (1995, Spring). Gender effects on student evaluations of faculty. Journal of Research and Development in Education, 28(3), 169-173.
Tellefson, N., Chen, J. S., Kleinsasser, A. (1989, Fall). The relationship of students' attitude about effective teaching to students' ratings of effective teaching. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 49(3), 529-536.
Tom, G., Swanson, S., Abbott, C., & Cajocum, E. (1990, September). The effect of student perception of instructor evaluations on faculty evaluation scores. College Student Journal, 24(3), 268-273.
Van Giffen, K. (1990). Influence of professor gender and perceived use of humor on course evaluations. Humor, 3(1), 65-73.
Williams, W. M. & Ceci, S. J. (1997, September/October). "How'm I doing?" Problems with student ratings of instructors and courses. Change, 29, 12-23.
Information Obtained from Course Evaluations
Feldman, K. A. (1996, Spring). Identifying exemplary teaching: Using data from course and teacher evaluations. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 65, 41-50.
Meredith, G. M. (1998, June). Shared components in students' ratings on instructors effectiveness and need for improvement. Psychological Reports, 62(3), 832-834.
Neath, I. (1996, June). How to improve your teaching evaluations without improving your teaching. Psychological Reports, 78(3), 1363-1372.
Schneider, B., Hanges, P. J., Goldstein, H. W., & Braverman, E. P. (1994, October). Do customer service perceptions generalize? The case of student and chair ratings of faculty effectiveness. Journal of Applied Psychology, 79(5). 685-690.
Scriven, M. (1995, October 1). Student ratings offer useful input to teacher evaluations (Report No. EDO-TM-95-8).
Washington DC: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 398 240
Sheehan, E. P. & DuPrey, T. (1999, September). Student evaluations of university teaching. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 26 (3), 188-193.
Tang, T. L-P. (1994, January 1). Teaching evaluation in the college of business: Factors related to the overall teaching effectiveness (Report No. HE027722). Tennessee: Higher Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 374 716)
General Information and Opinions About Course Evaluations
Abbott, R. D., Wulff, D. H., Nyquist, J. D., Ropp, V. A., et-al. (1990, June). Satisfaction with processes of collecting student opinions about instruction: The student perspective. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(2), 201-206.
Bollin, G. G., Bolton, D., & Kletzien, S. B. (1995). Faculty attitudes toward student course evaluations. The Journal of Staff, Program and Organization Development, 13(2), 103-111.
Callahan, J. P. (1992, March). Faculty attitude towards student evaluation. College Student Journal, 26(1), 98-102.
Cashin, W. E. (1989, September). Defining and evaluating college teaching. IDEA Paper No. 21. Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.
Cashin, W. E. (1990, January). Student ratings of teaching: Recommendations for use. IDEA Paper No. 22. Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.
Elbow, P. (1992, Spring). Making better use of student evaluations of teachers. ADE Bulletin, 101, 2-8.
Flannery, K. T. (2000, Fall). Contextualizing course evaluations: Using students' self-evaluation. ADE Bulletin, 126, 53-57.
Glassman, R. B. (1988, July/August). Course evaluations: Are half of us really "below average?" Academe, 74, 44.
Goldstein, R. J. (1993, Winter). Some thoughts about standardized teaching evaluations. Perspectives on Political Science, 22(1), 8-10.
Headrick, C. J. (1991, October). Teacher evaluations: A necessary evil? ACA Bulletin, 78, pp. 5-7.
Hightower, P. (1998, Winter). Teacher evaluations. Contemporary Education, 69(2), 111-113.
Jacobs, L. C. (1987, November). University faculty and students' opinions of student ratings (Report No. HE021158).
Bloomington, IN: Bureau of Evaluative Studies and Testing, Indiana University. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 291 291)
Kress, S. (2000, Fall). Course evaluations: The roles and needs of students, faculty members, and administrators. ADE Bulletin, 126, 48-52.
Leibowitz, W. R. (1999, October 22). Course evaluations proliferate on the Web—to the chagrin of many professors. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 46(9), A59-A60.
Marlin J. W., Jr. (1987, November-December). Student perception of end-of-course evaluations. Journal of Higher Education, 58(6), 704-716.
Platt, M. (1993, Winter). What student evaluations teach. Perspectives on Political Science, 22(1), 29-40.
Schmelkin, L. P. & Spencer, K. J. (1997, October). Faculty perspectives on course and teacher evaluations. Research in Higher Education, 38(5), 575-592.
Seldin, P. (1993, October). Rating student ratings of professors. Education Digest, 59(2), 70-72.
Thompson, G. E. (1988). Difficulties in interpreting course evaluations: Some Bayesian insights. Research in Higher Education, 28(3), 217-222.
Trout, P. (1998, December 8). Evaluating the evaluators. Christian Science Monitor, 91(9), 14.
Trout, P. A. (1997, December 1). Student course evaluations : What the numbers mean. Current, 398, 3-6.
Trout, P. A. (2000, April 21). Teacher evaluations. Commonweal, 138(8), 10-11.
Trout, P. A. (1997, September-October). What the numbers mean: Providing a context for numerical student evaluations of courses. Change, 29(5), 24-30.
Wilson, R. (1998, January 16). New research casts doubt on value of student evaluations of professors. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 44(19), A12-A14.
Validity and Reliability Issues
Abrami, P. C., D'Apollonia, S., & Cohen, P. A. (1990, June). Validity of student ratings of instruction: What we know and what we do not. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(2), 219-231.
Albanese, M. A., Schuldt, S. S., Case, D. E., & Brown, D. (1991, January). The validity of lecturer ratings by students and trained observers. Academic Medicine, 66(1), 26-28.
Aubrecht, J. D. (1979, November). Are student ratings of teacher effectiveness valid? IDEA Paper No. 2. Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.
Aubrecht, J. D. (1981, November). Reliability, validity and generalizability of student ratings of instruction. IDEA Paper No. 6. Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.
Cashin, W. E. (1995, September). Student ratings of teaching: The research revisited. IDEA Paper No. 32. Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.
Cashin, W. E. (1988, September). Student ratings of teaching: A summary of the research. IDEA Paper No. 20. Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.
Drews, D. R. & Others. (1987, February). Teacher self-ratings as a validity criterion for student evaluations. Teaching of Psychology, 14(1), 23-25.
Hepworth, D. & Oviatt, B. E. (1985, Fall). Using student course evaluations: Findings, issues, and recommendations. Journal of Social Work Education, 21(3), 105-112.
Huang, C. & Others. (1995, April 1). A generalizability theory approach to examining teaching evaluation instruments completed by students (Report No. TM024634). Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 394 984)
Marsh, H. W. (1984). Students' evaluations of university teaching: Dimensionality, reliability, validity, potential biases, and utility. Journal of Educational Psychology, 76(5), 707-754.
Marsh, H. W. & Bailey, M. (1993). Multidimensional students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness: A profile analysis. Journal of Higher Education, 64(1), 1-18.
Marsh, H. W. & Hocevar, D. (1991). Students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness: The stability of mean ratings of the same teachers over a 13-year period. Teaching and Teacher Education, 7(4), 303-314.
Preece, M. (1990, January). The reliability, validity, and usefulness of student evaluations for the purpose of improving teaching in postsecondary institutions: Annotated. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 322 971)
Scherr, F. C. & Scherr, S. S. (1990, May 1). Bias in student evaluations of teacher effectiveness. Journal of Education for Business, 65(8), 356-358.
Stanfel, L. E. (1995, June). Measuring the accuracy of student evaluations of teaching. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 22(2), 117-125.
Designing Course Evaluation Instruments
Carey, L. M. & Dedrick, R. F. (1994, Spring). Procedures for designing course evaluation instruments: Masked personality format versus transparent achievement format. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 54(1), 134-145.
Cashin, W. E. (1996, January). Developing an effective faculty evaluation system. IDEA Paper No. 33. Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.
Cashin, W. E. & Downey, R. G. (1992). Using global student rating items for summative evaluation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 84(4), 563-572.
Champion, C. H., Green, S. B., & Sauser, W. I. (1988, Spring). Development and evaluation of shortcut-derived Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 48(1), 29-41.
Eley, M. G. & Stecher, E. G. (1997, March). A comparison of two response scale formats used in teaching evaluation questionnaires. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 22(1), 65-79.
Rice, R. E., Stewart, L. P., & Hujber, M. (2000, July). Extending the domain of instructional effectiveness assessment in student evaluations of communication courses. Communication Education, 49(3), 253-266.
Examples of Course Evaluation Instruments
Abrami, P. C. & d'Apollonia, S. (1991). Multidimensional students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness—generalizability of "N = 1" research: Comment on Marsh (1991). Journal of Educational Psychology, 83(3), 411-415.
Cashin, W. E., Downey, R. G., & Sixbury, G. R. (1994). Global and specific ratings of teaching effectiveness and their relation to course objectives: Reply to Marsh (1994). Journal of Educational Psychology, 86(4), 649-657.
Dreger, R. M. (1997). Longitudinal study of a "student's evaluation of course" including the effects of a professor's life experiences on students' evaluations. Psychological Reports, 81, 563-588.
Hale, C. D., Herreid, C., & Waugh, G. (1996, May 1). Assessing teaching effectiveness in a liberal arts college: The student perspective (Report No. HE030576). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 414 776)
Loup, K. S. & Others. (1994, April 1). Initial development and piloting of a learning-based, classroom assessment and consultation system: New perspectives on the rhetoric of improving instruction in higher education settings (Report No. TM021747). Louisiana: Louisiana State University. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 371 043)
Marsh, H. W. (1991). A multidimensional perspective on students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness: Reply to Abrami and d'Apollonia (1991). Journal of Educational Psychology, 83(3), 416-421.
Marsh, H. W. (1991). Multidimensional students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness: A test of alternative higher-order structures. Journal of Educational Psychology, 83(2), 285-296.
Marsh, H. W. (1994, December). Weighting for the right criteria in the Instructional Development and Effectiveness Assessment (IDEA) System: Global and specific ratings of teaching effectiveness and their relation to course objectives. Journal of Educational Psychology, 86(4), 631-648.
Marsh, H. W. & Hocevar, D. (1991). The multidimensionality of students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness: The generality of factor structures across academic discipline, instructor level, and course level. Teaching and Teacher Education, 7(1), 9-18.
Pearson, L. C. & Carey, L. M. (1995, March-April). The Academic Motivation Profile for undergraduate student use in evaluating college courses. Journal of Educational Research, 88(4), 220-227.
Snell, J. C., Mekies, S., Parimanath, A., & Green, D. W. (1992, December). Snell Educator Effectiveness Index: An instrument for faculty evaluation by students. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 19(4), 286-290.
Watson, M. D., Hedley, A., Clark, K., Paquin, A., Gottesfeld, N., & Pritchard, R. D. (1995). Using ProMES to evaluate university teaching effectiveness. In R. D Pritchard (Ed.), Productivity measurement and improvement: Organizational case studies (pp. 190-208). Westport, CT, USA: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Wilson, K. L. & Lizzio, A. (1997, March). The development, validation, and application of the Course Experience Questionnaire. Studies in Higher Education, 22(1), 33-52.
Midterm Course Evaluations
Holt, M. E. & Moore, A. B. (1992, February). Checking halfway: The value of midterm course evaluation. Evaluation Practice, 13(1), 47-50.
Keutzer, C. S. (December, 1993). Midterm evaluation of teaching provides helpful feedback to instructors. Teaching of Psychology, 20(4), 238-240.
Dissertaion Abstracts
Cordogan, S. C. (1988). Potential biases in graduate student evaluations of faculty quality. Dissertation Abstracts International, 49(08A), 2036.
Friedman, D. W. (1995). An analysis of the relationship between instructors' and students' personality types based on evaluations of course satisfaction. Dissertation Abstracts International, 56(04A), 1223.
Keiter, M. H. (1999). An analysis of the nature of the relationship between faculty social interest and students' perceptions of teaching effectiveness (students' evaluations). Dissertation Abstracts International, 60(08A), 2827.
Kelly, M. (1991). Predictors of college student ratings of faculty (faculty rating). Dissertation Abstracts International, 52(11A), 3836.
Koermer, C. D. (1991). The relationship between students' communication expectations, experiences, and subsequent perceptions of learning, interaction, and course/instructor satisfaction. Dissertation Abstracts International, 52(05A), 1572.
McMillin, W. L. (1999). Learning style and teaching style interaction and the effect on psychological reactance (teacher evaluation). Dissertation Abstracts International, 60(08A), 2800.
Schoofs, N. C. (1997). A conceptual analysis of the views of student evaluations of faculty at three liberal arts colleges. Dissertation Abstracts International, 58(05A), 1617.
Spencer, K. J. (1994). Student perspectives on course and teacher evaluations (course evaluations). Dissertation Abstracts International, 55(04A), 0881.
Wu, L. S. (1993). Effects of student ratings feedback in improving college teaching (teacher evaluations, student-rated). Dissertation Abstracts International, 54(08A), 2999.
Zhai, M. (1990). An evaluation of student evaluations of faculty teaching effectiveness. Dissertation Abstracts International, 51(09A), 3000.
