SRI Task Force
Literature Review on Student Ratings of Instruction
AAUP Recommendations
Statements on Teaching Evaluation (1999) AAUP statement 1
Observations on the Association's Statement on Teaching Evaluation (2005) AAUP statement 2
Proposal-Specific References (2/4/14)
- Ansolabehere, Stephen and Shanto Iyengar. 1997. Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate. New York: The Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- Baumeister, Roy F., Ellen Bratslavsky, Catrin Finkenauer, and Kathleen D. Vohs. 2001. Bad Is Stronger Than Good. Review of General Psychology 5, no. 4: 323-3710. Baumeister
- Ito, Tiffany A., Jeff T. Larsen, N. Kyle Smith, and John T. Cacioppo. 1998. Negative information Weighs More Heavily on the Brain: The Negativity Bias in Evaluative Categorizations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 75, no. 4: 887—900. Ito
- Wongsurawat, Winai. 2011. What’s a comment worth? How to better understand student evaluations of teaching. Quality Assurance in Education 19, no. 1: 67-83. Wongsurawat
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Specific Issues Discussed
- Examining Student Evaluations of Black College Faculty: Does Race Matter? (Examining student evaluations)
- Student Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness for Faculty Groups Based on Race and Gender. (Examining student evaluations)
- Greenwald, A. G. (1997). Validity concerns and usefulness of student ratings of instruction. American Psychologist, 52(11), 1182-1186. (Validity concerns)
- Disciplinary Differences in Student Ratings of Teaching Quality (Disciplinary differences)
- Factors Influencing Teaching Evaluations in Higher Education. (Factors influencing evaluations)
Additional Literature
- REFRAME: a new approach to evaluation in higher education. (Reframe a new approach)
- Thick slice and thin slice teaching evaluations (Thick slice and thin slice)
- On Student Evaluation of Teaching and Improvement of the Teaching Quality Assurance System at Higher Education Institutions (On student evaluation)
- Improving course evaluations to improve instruction and complex learning in higher education. (Improving course evaluations)
- What's the “Use” of Student Ratings of Instruction for Administrators? One University's Experience. (Whats the use)
- Developing a comprehensive teaching evaluation system for foundation courses with enhanced validity and reliability. (Teaching evaluation system)
Auraria Library Resources
- American Faculty and their Institutions: The Global View.http://0-www.tandfonline.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/doi/pdf/10.1080/00091383.2012.672882
- What Instructor Qualities Do Students Reward?
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/ehost/detail?vid=6&sid=80a17ded-fd39-4afc-9bcd-f0efff798f0c%40sessionmgr114&hid=123&bdata=#db=eft&AN=79547317 - Greenwald, A. G. (2002). Constructs in student ratings of instructors. In H. I. Braun, D. N. Jackson, & D. E. Wiley (Eds.), The role of constructs in psychological and educational measurement (pp. 277-297). New York: Erlbaum. http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/nlebk_63966_AN?sid=b6c7154d-cd3f-4001-a8c3-0b2b2599ba13@sessionmgr111&vid=1&format=EB&rid=1
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