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Nina Zipser; Lisa Mincieli – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
This paper presents a framework for utilizing Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) in faculty evaluations. Recognizing the ongoing debate about the validity of SET as a measure of teaching effectiveness, the authors agree with scholars who propose viewing SET as a tool for gauging 'student perceptions of learning'. They present a method that…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Evaluation Criteria
Gray, Claire – Higher Education Quarterly, 2016
This paper reports on research into the operation of English further/higher education, with a focus on the role of partnerships in supporting the massification of higher education. The research draws on the bottom-up policy implementation tradition to provide analysis of the effects on partnerships of a quasi-marketised environment. The rationale…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Data Interpretation, Colleges, English
Chingos, Matthew M. – Brookings Institution, 2013
College completion rates in the U.S. are stubbornly low despite the large and rising returns to a college degree. Efforts to increase student success in college have largely ignored a potentially key factor: the instruction that students receive in the sequence of courses that add up to a college education. Improving the quality of instruction may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Exit Examinations, Comparative Testing
Minelli, Rachel M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation reports the results of three studies and a pilot study. The first study was a Monte Carlo validation study that examined the accuracy of a new visual inspection method, the semi-interquartile range method. Results of the study indicated that this method had lower levels of power than a previously validated method, the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Preservice Teachers
Page, Stewart; Cramer, Kenneth M.; Page, Laura – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2010
We present a data-based perspective concerning recent (e.g., 2008) "Maclean's" magazine rankings of Canadian universities, including cluster analysis of the 2008 data. Canadian universities empirically resemble and relate to each other in a manner different from their formal classification and final rank ordering in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries
Friedman, Daniel B. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
"The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success," a five-volume series, is designed to assist educators who are interested in launching a first-year seminar or revamping an existing program. Each volume examines a different aspect of first-year seminar design or…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Curriculum Implementation
Brossart, Daniel F.; Parker, Richard I.; Olson, Elizabeth A.; Mahadevan, Lakshmi – Behavior Modification, 2006
This study explored some practical issues for single-case researchers who rely on visual analysis of graphed data, but who also may consider supplemental use of promising statistical analysis techniques. The study sought to answer three major questions: (a) What is a typical range of effect sizes from these analytic techniques for data from…
Descriptors: Research Design, Effect Size, Evaluation Methods, Researchers