Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Academe

Publication Date

5-1987

Keywords

Student evaluations, personnel decisions, faculty evaluation, grade inflation

Abstract

After describing common faculty worries and objections regarding the use of student evaluations for personnel decision-making, I describe ways in which student evaluations can be used appropriately, and ways in which faculty can gain useful information from them. I argue that using student evaluations in personnel decision-making can be appropriate only if they are used as only one measure of faculty performance, and not as a measure of things that students are not equipped to measure.

Comments

This is a preprint of an article first published in Academe, May-June 1987.

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