Title: Teaching effectiveness as measured by student evaluation of teaching: an empirical study

Authors: Dana M. Johnson

Addresses: School of Business and Economics, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, USA

Abstract: This study focuses on the formative aspect of student evaluation of teachings (SETs) as one method of measuring teaching effectiveness from the student perspective. This study does not focus on the summative purpose of SETs, where the primary intent is forming a basis for tenure/promotion and/or pay for performance (raises). A longitudinal study of SET in an undergraduate operations management course required by all business majors, along with the grade point averages (GPAs) for the corresponding semester, provided the basis for predicting which questions (variables) on the SET predicted the students perception of overall teaching effectiveness and the impact of the SET on student GPA. Triangulation consisted of descriptive statistics analysis, variable selection regression, multiple regression with different dependent variables and exploratory principal components analysis. The results support that SETs can be used to measure overall teaching effectiveness for formative evaluation.

Keywords: SET; student evaluation of teaching; operations management education; empirical; triangulation; multivariate analysis; teaching effectiveness; higher education.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIOME.2011.044564

International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education, 2011 Vol.4 No.3/4, pp.212 - 228

Received: 15 Sep 2010
Accepted: 16 Oct 2011

Published online: 07 Feb 2015 *

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