Effectiveness of the students´ evaluation process of teaching instructors

  1. Dorta González, Pablo
  2. Dorta González, María Isabel
Zeitschrift:
Rect@: Revista Electrónica de Comunicaciones y Trabajos de ASEPUMA

ISSN: 1575-605X

Datum der Publikation: 2013

Ausgabe: 14

Nummer: 1

Seiten: 121-130

Art: Artikel

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Zusammenfassung

When the college student satisfaction survey is considered in the promotion and recognition of instructors, a usual complaint is related to the impact that biased ratings have on the arithmetic mean (used as a measure of teaching effectiveness). This is especially significant when the number of students responding to the survey is small. In this work a new methodology, considering student to student perceptions, is presented. Two different estimators of student rating credibility, based on centrality properties of the student social network, are proposed. This method is established on the idea that in the case of on-site higher education, students often know which others are competent in rating the teaching and learning process.

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