Does course evaluation by students aid students in selecting the "best" instructors? This and related questions were experimentally tested by University of Utah faculty members. (Editor/LBH)

Teachers of courses preparing teachers of driver education report a follow-up study which revealed that students have a better appreciation of a course after they have actually used the knowledge obtained. (Editor/LBH)

Increased attention on the quality of teaching has meant an increase in the use of student surveys as a measure of perceived teaching quality. Many student surveys, which typically take the form of teacher and course evaluations, are conducted at the end of a school term and are more summative in nature. Results are given to the instructor after…

The College Credit Recommendation Service of the American Council on Education helps adults gain academic credit for formal courses taken outside college and university degree programs. It does this by providing educational institutions with reliable information to use in making decisions about credit awards. This guide is a reference to help…

Currently every Area Education Agency, community college, and Regent University in Iowa is connected by a fiber optic system known as the Iowa Communications Network (ICN). Every semester, 7 to 13 college credit classes have been offered at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) via the ICN since 1993. In the Spring of 1995 seven classes (six…

In order to evaluate a required health and wellness course at Salem State College, the researcher conducted a triangulation study using a student questionnaire, an instructor survey, and student focus group interviews. The two single session focus group interviews were held during students' last week of the course. One student from each of 21…

The first step in a multi-stage approach to assessment of the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Art at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, this study assessed the department's introductory course. Data came from cognitive pre/post tests, self reports, and peer evaluations. Results indicated that: (1) students scored higher on…

This report is based on the results of student surveys collected during the years 1997 to 2000 from students who took the Introduction to Sociology telecourse at Utah Valley Community College. With a response rate of 45 percent, 231 students completed the survey. The survey was designed to (1) track enrollments; (2) provide a value-added measure…

Author made a number of suggestions toward making more effective course evaluation and considered the interaction between student and teacher. (RK)

Summarizes results of two questionnaire studies on student evaluation of courses and instruction, respectively, conducted in the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and by the Committee on Undergraduate Teaching of the Division of Chemical Education, The American Chemical Society. Included are two samples of the…

This paper represents the "first report" of a project designed to examine the "efficiency" of the first year economics course at Queen's University, Canada. The aim of this report is to identify and quantify the factors that account for student performance. Construction of the research and a discussion of other research findings are included.…

Author suggests that the goals held by teachers and administrators are illusory and it would be wiser to consider the real progress made by each student. (Author/RK)

Discusses two pedagogical problems encountered in teaching of inorganic chemistry, namely, excessive instruction of bond theory and neglect of introducing new development, especially bioinorganic knowledge. (CC)