Student evaluations of teaching do not reflect student learning: an observational study
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Résumé
BACKGROUND: Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET), of individual instructors and of courses, are routinely utilized by university administrators for consequential decisions regarding individual faculty members, courses, and curricula. Despite their ubiquity, much evidence exists that they are biased, amongst other factors by expected and received student grades. To our knowledge, this issue has not been examined in veterinary education until recently. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether observed combinations of higher grades and more favorable student evaluations using common survey instruments reflect enhanced learning. Our study evaluates the relationship between (A) student evaluations of courses in a veterinary curriculum, (B) grades earned in those courses, and (C) an independent measure of learning in those subjects. METHODS: The Veterinary Educational Assessment (VEA) is an independent, external examination in basic sciences subjects prepared by the National Board of Medical Examiners and administered by the International Council for Veterinary Assessment and is taken by Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine (RUSVM) students in their fifth semester of study. It offers an external means of measuring student learning in specific subjects and relating them to course evaluations. RUSVM has three terms each year with three separate intakes of students. Course evaluations and student grades were recorded for courses from fall 2018 to summer 2022, spanning 12 cohorts of students, and 160 individual courses. Courses were aligned to the relevant section of the VEA taken by each cohort. Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated. RESULTS: Mean course evaluations were significantly positively correlated to median grade in the course (rho = 0.35, P < 0.0001) and the proportion of students earning A-grades (rho = 0.38, P < 0.0001). The relationship between course evaluation and relevant VEA score was negative (rho = -0.18, P = 0.02), indicating that students judged courses favorably when higher grades were expected without necessarily learning more from those courses. CONCLUSIONS: We confirmed the well-known relationship between SET and student grades but, for the first time in veterinary medicine, describe a small but negative and statistically significant relationship between SET and an independent measure of learning. SET should be interpreted with caution; their use for evaluation of teachers or courses may have unintended consequences including reduced expectations for student achievement.
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Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.
Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,019 | 0,045 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,000 | 0,001 |
| Science ouverte | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,001 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,001 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule tête enseignante, pas un consensus.
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