Increasing the Effectiveness of Student Evaluation of Instructor Data through a Factor Score Comparative Report
介绍了一种创新的因子得分比较报告，通过提供六个因子的百分位比较数据，帮助教师更有效解读学生评教结果，并得到教师广泛支持。
ABSTRACT Effective student evaluation of instructor instruments must provide norm, or comparative, data to aid interpretation. This note highlights an innovative factor score comparative report. Rather than merely reporting comparative data on individual questions items, the innovative report provides comparative percentile data on the six factors underlying our thirty‐three item questionnaire. The faculty indicated overwhelming support for the new report. The note also briefly mentions three other activities that are essential for student evaluation of instructor data to improve teacher effectiveness. Our goal is to stimulate other colleges to adopt the innovative norming practice once they have validated their local evaluation instruments. College‐wide improvement of teaching will occur through such do‐it‐yourself efforts and only decision science faculty are technically qualified to lead such efforts.