{"id":69144,"date":"2019-12-28T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69144"},"modified":"2019-12-27T15:04:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T20:04:29","slug":"on-the-care-and-handling-of-student-ratings-talbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/12\/28\/on-the-care-and-handling-of-student-ratings-talbert\/","title":{"rendered":"On the care and handling of student ratings [Talbert]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rtalbert.org\/on-the-care-and-handling-of-student-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>On the care and handling of student ratings<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from rtalbert.org by Robert Talbert<br \/>\n<em>Student evaluations of teaching are not true evaluations. We should call them what they are &#8212; perception data &#8212; and use them accordingly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"how-to-handle-student-perception-data-as-a-department\"><strong>How to handle student perception data as a department<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Never use student perception data as the sole, or even the main source of information about a faculty member&#8217;s teaching.<\/strong> Teaching, as I said, is a wickedly complex problem. It simply cannot be reduced to a set of data, or in some cases to a single number. To get an accurate picture of faculty teaching, you need more than just student perceptions. Use faculty self-evaluations, peer evaluations via class visits, faculty-initiated data collected through pre- and post-testing&#8230; Insist on using multiple sources of data for faculty evaluations and make it easy to include them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Never compare one faculty member to another based on student perception data.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Look at trends over time and how faculty respond to their data.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the care and handling of student ratings &#8212; from rtalbert.org by Robert Talbert Student evaluations of teaching are not true evaluations. We should call them what they are &#8212; perception data &#8212; and use them accordingly. Excerpts: How to handle student perception data as a department Never use student perception data as the sole, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,68,174,115,302,71,3,825,102,7,173,66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-assessment","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-law-schools","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69145,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144\/revisions\/69145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}