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The Student Views The Teacher: Investigating Student Perception In Assessment Of High School Teachers, Richard N. Johns Jan 1997

The Student Views The Teacher: Investigating Student Perception In Assessment Of High School Teachers, Richard N. Johns

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The purpose of this study was to examine student assessment of teachers at the secondary level and to add to the body of knowledge pertaining to the role of student evaluation of teacher performance in the instructional improvement process. The study was designed to determine which teacher behaviors and student/teacher relationship characteristics influenced summative assessments of teachers and if the influence was distorted by certain potentially biasing variables. Student assessments of teachers were compared to principal assessments of teachers to determine whether significant differences in ratings existed between these two evaluative sources.

The research questions focused on the composition of …