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Download full textCentra, John A.; Linn, Robert L. – 1973
This study investigated student points of view in their ratings of specific courses and instructors by analyzing student responses within each of three classes separately, and then sought to generalize the results further by additional analyses, with 300 students randomly selected from 402 classes in five colleges. Different points of view were…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Course Evaluation, Faculty Evaluation
Centra, John A. – 1972
Methods and reasons for evaluating teaching are discussed, and an experimental study of the effectiveness of students' ratings of teachers is described. The two main reasons for evaluating teaching as given in this paper are (1) to help make decisions about whom to promote, and (2) to improve instruction. In the experimental study, five diverse…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Promotion
Centra, John A. – 1973
The impact or possible impact of college student ratings on the individual instructor, on teaching generally, on students, on administrators, and on the college is discussed. A study of over 400 faculty members in which half were assigned to an experimental group and half were controls, showed that as a result of student ratings on an instructor's…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education, Speeches
Peer reviewedCentra, John A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
Research indicates that colleagues, administrators, students, and alumni have all identified similar general characteristics of effective college teachers and teaching and can make valid evaluations of individual teachers. A proposed process for identifying teaching award winners has two stages: (1) nomination using a rating and description form;…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Alumni, College Faculty, College Instruction
Peer reviewedCentra, John A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1973
The purpose of this study was to further investigate college teachers' self-ratings and ratings given by students by comparing these two sets of ratings over a wide range of specific student-oriented instructional practices. (Author)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Instructional Programs, Questionnaires, Sampling
Peer reviewedCentra, John A. – Change, 1973
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Reaction
Centra, John A. – 1972
Two studies are reported. In the first, the effectiveness of student ratings in improving college teaching was investigated. Teachers in five diverse colleges were assigned randomly to a feedback (treatment), no-feedback (control), or posttest group. The feedback and no-feedback groups used a student rating from in one of their classes at…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Faculty, College Students, Multiple Regression Analysis
Centra, John A.
Student and alumni ratings for 23 teachers were found to correlate .75 (somewhat less for teachers rated only by graduates of their department). This substantial agreement between current students and alumni (of five years) regarding who have been effective or ineffective teachers suggest that student ratings are fairly permanent and do, at least…
Descriptors: Alumni, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Research Reports
Peer reviewedCentra, John A.; Sobol, Marion G. – Research in Higher Education, 1974
Evaluations of the interim term or 4-1-4 program at various colleges have been generally favorable. A detailed evaluation of the Rider College interim study program based on faculty and student reports indicated that the more nontraditionally oriented courses were rated higher than the more traditional offerings. (Editor/PG)
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Scheduling
Centra, John A. – College Board Review, 1971
Students generally are not able to obtain quantitative information about the colleges to which they hope to apply. (IR)
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Environment, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
