Author : Samar Haddad
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)
Book Synopsis Relation of Instructional, Pedagogical and Course Content Characteristics to Student Ratings of University Instructors' Teaching Effectiveness by : Samar Haddad
Download or read book Relation of Instructional, Pedagogical and Course Content Characteristics to Student Ratings of University Instructors' Teaching Effectiveness written by Samar Haddad and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is essential to determine if student ratings of instructors' teaching effectiveness reflect systematic bias due to instructor's gender. Students in five universities were asked to rate instructors in three factors: interpersonal characteristics, pedagogical characteristics and course content characteristics. Group differences were examined based on student gender, instructor gender, student level, and class size. Results indicated significant interactions between student gender and instructor gender in the course content characteristics but no differences were found in the interpersonal characteristics or pedagogical characteristics. Significant results were also found in the course content characteristics when the course was required. The findings were promising in the sense that they tended to eliminate gender bias in student evaluations of their instructors. The findings also suggested that administrators should not assume one gender to supply good or bad instruction, and they sh ...