Fallacies and Assumptions in the Use of Student Evaluation of Distance Education Teaching Materials.

Cresswell, Roger; Hobson, Peter

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Publication Date: 1996

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Fallacies and Assumptions in the Use of Student Evaluation of Distance Education Teaching Materials.

Cresswell, Roger; Hobson, Peter

Distance Education, v17 n1 p132-44 1996

Discusses five fallacies that can arise in the design and analysis of student questionnaires regarding teaching materials used in Australian distance education courses, including student objectivity, student subject knowledge, notions of relevance, author responsibility for student learning, and faulty generalization in evaluating student responses. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Material Evaluation, Objectivity, Questionnaires, Relevance (Education), Student Attitudes

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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