A model explaining various influences on general student opinions of faculty teaching performance was developed for a college in the University of North Dakota (UND). The goals were to (1) find a way to remove influences of improper criteria from general measures of teaching performance and (2) determine which differences in adjusted general…

Faculty effectiveness as evaluated by students was the focal point of the first invitational conference sponsored by the Measurement and Research Center of Temple University. Papers presented cover: the rationale of student evaluation of faculty, the impact of student ratings on academia, the usefulness of student evaluations in improving college…

The generally prescriptive approach to the evaluation of teaching by students is criticized. Examples are given of how the lack of prescription enables teachers to use evaluations in a more varied, relevant and innovative manner. A student evaluation project at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham is described. (Author/MLW)

This book on the economics of education is concerned primarily with how and why the student goes about acquiring whatever human capital he or she wishes and how the institutional setting of the university influences the amount of human capital that the student acquires. The learning process is dealt with, and an economic theory of learning, which…

These proceedings include 83 papers and 24 abstracts of papers contributed at the AIR's Annual Forum. Practitioners at two- and four-year colleges and universities, public and private (teachers, department chairmen, and administrators) as well as theoreticians are addressed. Papers fall into 13 categories: (1) presidential address and theme…