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50 Years of ERIC
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Beran, Tanya; Violato, Claudio – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Characteristics of university courses and student engagement were examined in relation to student ratings of instruction. The Universal Student Ratings of Instruction instrument was administered to students at the end of every course at a major Canadian university over a three-year period. Using a two-step analytic procedure, a latent variable…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Student Attitudes, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
Beran, Tanya; Violato, Claudio; Kline, Don – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2007
At most Canadian and American community colleges and universities, student ratings have been implemented as a means of evaluating course instruction. Although concerns regarding the validity of student ratings from instructors' perspectives have been studied quite extensively, issues associated with the use of student ratings information by…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Foreign Countries, Administrators, Surveys
Beran, Tanya; Violato, Claudio; Kline, Don; Frideres, Jim – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2005
Students, faculty and administrators at a major Canadian university were surveyed to investigate the utility or "consequential validity" of student ratings of instructors. Of the 1,229 (approximately equal number of males and females) students and alumni, about half (52%) indicated that they had never used the ratings, but of those who did use it,…
Descriptors: Validity, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Faculty