Student Ratings of University Professors

Sixty-two colleges have required their faculty to implement student ratings in their courses, and the rest of the schools offer student ratings as an option to their faculty. 2. The purposes of student ratings vary from school to school . Sixty-six schools have it for teaching improvement, 26 schools for teaching effectiveness rewards, 23 schools for teacher job contract, 47 schools for teacher academic promotion, 7 schools for student selecting courses. 3.

Eight schools have the evaluation process on the net, 6 schools outside the classroom, and the rest of schools hold the evaluation process in the classroom. 4. Sixty schools use a school-wide instrument. Five schools have invited student representatives to participate the instrument- development process. 5.

Four schools make the results of student ratings available to their students. Three schools have published the results of student ratings on school journals.