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The relationship between student ratings of course effectiveness and student achievement
Author(s) -
MENDELSON MARILYN A.,
CANADAY S. D.,
HARDIN J. H.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1978.tb00337.x
Subject(s) - likert scale , psychology , student achievement , academic achievement , course evaluation , medical education , course (navigation) , strengths and weaknesses , rating scale , mathematics education , scale (ratio) , higher education , medicine , social psychology , developmental psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law , astronomy
Summary For many years student ratings have been used to assess the strengths and weaknesses of various courses and the teaching abilities of the instructors involved. Investigators have either supported or attacked the validity of this assessment procedure on the basis of the direction and degree of the relationship found between student rating of a course and student achievement in that course. This validation study supplemented correlation analysis with analysis of variance to compare groups at various achievement levels and to control for the possible confounding effects of overall group analysis. Medical students responded to a Likert attitude scale about aspects of an anatomy course. The mean attitude scores for a high and a low course achievement group were significantly different at the 0.005 level; the high achievement group had a more positive course attitude.