The impact of individual consultation on student ratings of teaching

Autor: Sergio Piccinin, Carolina Cristi, Marcia McCoy
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: International Journal for Academic Development. 4:75-88
ISSN: 1470-1324
1360-144X
DOI: 10.1080/1360144990040202
Popis: The present study addressed the impact of individual consultation on teaching improvement as measured by changes in student ratings. Subjects included 91 professors who presented naturally for individual consultation services over a seven‐year period at the teaching centre of a Canadian university. Interventions by the consultant fell into three categories: 1) Feedback‐Consultation, 2) Feedback‐Consultation‐Class Observation, and 3) Feedback‐Consultation‐Class Observation and Student Consultation. End of term student ratings for the course that was the subject of the consultation were compared with student ratings for the same course taught between one and three years prior to the consultation service, and for the same course taught between one to three years following consultation. The results showed that, overall, consultation was effective in improving the quality of the consultees’ teaching, as evidenced by an increase in mean student ratings of instruction. This effect persisted post consult...
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