2022-07-18
Assessing Instructor Effectiveness Based on Future Student Performance
2022-07-18 • Gary M. Weiss, Erik T. Brown, Michael Riad-Zaky, Ruby Iannone, Daniel Leeds
Educational institutions rely on instructor assessment to determine course assignments, which instructors to retain or promote, and whom to provide with additional assistance or training. Instructor assessment is most commonly based on student surveys or peer evaluation— which are both subject to the evaluator's personal biases. This study describes an assessment method based on future student grade performance, which has the potential to avoid these biases. This study is based on eight years of undergraduate cour…