If institutions of higher education are serious about encouraging excellence in teaching, then they must be prepared to reward such excellence in a manner similar to that for excellence in scholarly achievement. The first step to achieve this goal would be to establish a standard system of evaluating instructional effectiveness that would have as…

Of the various systems developed for student evaluation of course and instructor, the Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire (CEQ) has perhaps the most extensive reliability and validity data to support it as well as the most extensive norm data base. The CEQ is used to collect student attitudes towards a course and instructor and its purpose is…

Two groups of students registered in the fall and spring semesters, respectively, of an undergraduate history course taught by the same instructor, evaluated the course by means of the Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire. Students registered in the spring were informed that the results of the evaluation would be used for consideration of the…

The Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire (CEQ) is an instrument used to collect student attitudes towards a course. Its purpose is to enable faculty members to collect evaluative information about their traching. The data are collected and processed by section but may also be processed by course, department, college, etc. The student responses…