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| Title |
Do the Best Teachers Get the Best Ratings?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, April 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00570 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nate Kornell, Hannah Hausman |
| Abstract |
We review recent studies that asked: do college students learn relatively more from teachers whom they rate highly on student evaluation forms? Recent studies measured learning at two-time points. When learning was measured with a test at the end of the course, the teachers who got the highest ratings were the ones who contributed the most to learning. But when learning was measured as performance in subsequent related courses, the teachers who had received relatively low ratings appeared to have been most effective. We speculate about why these effects occurred: making a course difficult in productive ways may decrease ratings but enhance learning. Despite their limitations, we do not suggest abandoning student ratings, but do recommend that student evaluation scores should not be the sole basis for evaluating college teaching and they should be recognized for what they are. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 110 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 22 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 21 | 19% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 4% |
| Canada | 4 | 4% |
| Germany | 3 | 3% |
| Australia | 3 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Unknown | 45 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 66 | 60% |
| Scientists | 34 | 31% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 9 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 104 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 99 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Professor | 18 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 13% |
| Lecturer | 11 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 10% |
| Researcher | 10 | 10% |
| Other | 22 | 21% |
| Unknown | 20 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 20 | 19% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 12% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 28 | 27% |
| Unknown | 30 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 93. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 September 2023.
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So far Altmetric has tracked 34,818 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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