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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Real GPA and Real SET: Two Antidotes to Greed, Sloth and Cowardice in the College Classroom
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Koper, Peter T.; Felton, James; Sanney, Kenneth J.; Mitchell, John B. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
Recently published evidence of limited learning among American college students confirms the damage done when students, faculty and institutions pursue interests that conflict with the educational process. The "disengagement compact" in which faculty tacitly trade lenient workloads and grading for higher student evaluation of teaching…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Scores, Undergraduate Students
Attractiveness, Easiness and Other Issues: Student Evaluations of Professors on Ratemyprofessors.com
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Felton, James; Koper, Peter T.; Mitchell, John; Stinson, Michael – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Felton et al. (2004) reported that web-based student evaluations of teaching (SET) demonstrated a student preference for course easiness and instructor sexiness. This study explores these same relationships with a larger and improved database. Results indicate even stronger relationships than previously reported. In addition, this study…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Cultural Differences, Internet, Web Sites
Web-Based Student Evaluations of Professors: The Relations between Perceived Quality, Easiness and Sexiness
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Felton, James; Mitchell, John; Stinson, Michael – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2004
College students critique their professors' teaching at RateMyProfessors.com, a web page where students anonymously rate their professors on Quality, Easiness, and Sexiness. Using the self-selected data from this public forum, we examine the relations between quality, easiness, and sexiness for 3190 professors at 25 universities. For faculty with…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Internet, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness
Nominal GPA and Real GPA: A Simple Adjustment that Compensates for Grade Inflation
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Felton, James; Koper, Peter T. – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 2005
Grade inflation is a longstanding problem whose seriousness is demonstrated by a wide variety of studies of grade distributions. A few institutions have changed the information on their transcripts in an effort to account for it. Proposals to index grades have been largely unsuccessful for a variety of reasons. A simple index, the Real GPA, is…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade Inflation, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement