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Achievement Gaps - The Continuing Challenge, Geoff N. Masters Ao
Achievement Gaps - The Continuing Challenge, Geoff N. Masters Ao
Teacher columnist – Geoff Masters
Professor Geoff Masters AO discusses the challenges of closing achievement gaps.
The Tail Wagging The Dog: An Overdue Examination Of Student Teaching Evaluations, Patti Miles, Deanna House
The Tail Wagging The Dog: An Overdue Examination Of Student Teaching Evaluations, Patti Miles, Deanna House
Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of several factors beyond the professor’s control and their unique impact on Student Teaching Evaluations (STEs). The present research pulls together a substantial amount of data to statistically analyze several academic historical legends about just how vulnerable STEs are to the effects of: class size, course type, professor gender, and course grades.
Design/methodology/approach: This research is utilizes over 30,000 individual student evaluations of 255 professors, spanning six semesters, during a three year time period to test six hypotheses. The final sample represents 1057 classes ranging in size between 10 …