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Improving Judgments about Teaching Effectiveness: How To Lie without Statistics.
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Abrami, Philip C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2001
Preceding articles in this issue, "Improving Judgments about Teaching Effectiveness Using Teacher Rating Forms" (Abrami) and "Can We Put Precision into Practices? Commentary and Thoughts Engendered by Abrami's 'Improving Judgments about Teacher Effectiveness Using Teacher Rating Forms,'" offered: (1) Abrami's proposals to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Summative Evaluation
Multidimensional Students' Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness--Generalizability of "N = 1" Research: Comment on Marsh (1991).
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Abrami, Philip C.; d'Apollonia, Sylvia – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
Limitations of the confirmatory factor analysis conducted by H. W. Marsh to demonstrate the multidimensionality of a rating form to assess student evaluation of teaching effectiveness are discussed. A secondary analysis suggests that dimensionality is not stable across solutions and a global factor can be retrieved. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Structure, Faculty Evaluation, Generalizability Theory