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Student Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness and the Leniency Hypothesis: A Literature Review
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Gump, Steven E. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2007
This review presents an overview of selected articles on the leniency hypothesis: the idea that students give higher evaluations to instructors who grade more leniently. Such articles comprise a small subset of the voluminous research on student evaluations of teaching (SETs). In this diverse literature, research methods and aims have frequently…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Research Methodology, Meta Analysis, Research Problems