{"id":1684,"date":"2011-05-20T07:35:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:56:56","slug":"student-evaluations-of-teaching-dont-correlate-with-learning-gains-computing-education-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/05\/20\/student-evaluations-of-teaching-dont-correlate-with-learning-gains-computing-education-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Student evaluations of teaching don\u2019t correlate with learning gains \u00ab Computing Education Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/20\/student-evaluations-of-teaching-dont-correlate-with-learning-gains\/\">Student evaluations of teaching don\u2019t correlate with learning gains \u00ab Computing Education Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Guzdial comments on a post made on (<a href=\"http:\/\/listserv.aera.net\/scripts\/wa.exe?A2=AERA-L;6767f510.1105\">LISTSERV 16.0 &#8211; AERA-L Archives<\/a>.) by Richard Hake, who disagrees with the popular (especially among administrators) notion that student evaluations of teaching are valid form of evidence to measure teaching. I agree with him too. They&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p>They are measures of a teacher&#8217;s popularity and have little if anything to do with how much they have learned. He also mentions something I have found to be true again and again in my 30+ years of teaching: student evaluations often go down when students learn more by working harder.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Teaching awards do NOT imply that someone is a good teacher. They imply that someone is a good politician, who knows how to get people to like her (or him).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1684'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1684);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'><b>2<\/b> people like this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1684);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1684);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Student evaluations of teaching don\u2019t correlate with learning gains \u00ab Computing Education Blog. Mark Guzdial comments on a post made on (LISTSERV 16.0 &#8211; AERA-L Archives.) by Richard Hake, who disagrees with the popular (especially among administrators) notion that student &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/05\/20\/student-evaluations-of-teaching-dont-correlate-with-learning-gains-computing-education-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[388,41,15,393],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-education","tag-higher-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7312,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2019\/06\/19\/worth-sharing-we-dont-trust-course-evaluations-but-are-peer-observations-of-teaching-much-better\/","url_meta":{"origin":1684,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: We Don\u2019t Trust Course Evaluations, but Are Peer Observations of Teaching Much Better?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Why colleges and universities that claim to take teaching seriously need a comprehensive and fair system of evaluating it. 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Contingent faculty members who are hired just before the start of an academic term can opt to prep their classes while they're not on the payroll or resign themselves\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4463,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}