Monday, January 23, 2006

Feldman, 1978

Knneth A. Feldman September 1978 Course characteristics and college
students'' ratings of their teachers: What we know and what we don't.

Research in Higher Education Volume 9, Number 3 199 - 242

Course characteristics, like course size, course level, subject matter, time of day, and electivity seem to play a weak role discriminating student ratings of instructors. Interesting thought they raise is whether preexisting conditions about a teachers may be why they are assigned a course, and/or does the nature of the course influence teachers instructional decisions. Cases point that the latter does happen, while not necessarily true all the time.

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