Flera studier ifrågasätter studenternas kursutvärderingar som trovärdiga mätningar av kurskvalitet och lärarens undervisning enligt en artikel i Inside Higher Ed, Zero Correlation Between Evaluations and Learning. Artikeln beskriver en ny kanadensisk studie (se referensen nedan) som indikerar att studenternas positiva omdömen av lärarens undervisning inte kunde kopplas till lärande. Omdömen var väldigt subjektiva och handlar sällan om just pedagogiken och lärande. Studien rekommenderar att arbetsgivare inte baserar sin bedömning av lärarens pedagogiska färdigheter på studentutvärderingar.
- The entire notion that we could measure professors' teaching effectiveness by simple ways such as asking students to answer a few questions about their perceptions of their course experiences, instructors' knowledge and the like seems unrealistic given well-established findings from cognitive sciences such as strong associations between learning and individual differences including prior knowledge, intelligence, motivation and interest ... Individual differences in knowledge and intelligence are likely to influence how much students learn in the same course taught by the same professor.
Meta-analysis of faculty's teaching effectiveness: Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related. Bob Uttl, Carmela A. White, Daniela Wong Gonzalez. Department of Psychology, Mount Royal University, Canada. Studies in educational evaluation, Sept 2016.
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