Use of RateMyProfessors.com Data as a Supplemental Tool for the Assessment of General Chemistry Instruction

Autor/inn/en	Bergin, Adam; Sharp, Kevan; Gatlin, Todd A.; Villalta-Cerdas, Adrian; Gower, Austin; Sandi-Urena, Santiago
Titel	Use of RateMyProfessors.com Data as a Supplemental Tool for the Assessment of General Chemistry Instruction
Quelle	In: Journal of Chemical Education, 90 (2013) 3, S.289-295 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9584
DOI	10.1021/ed300277n
Schlagwörter	Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Web Sites; College Students; College Faculty; College Science; Science Instruction; Chemistry; Databases; Student Characteristics; Student Attitudes; Student Surveys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Web-Design; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Chemie; Datenbank; Schülerverhalten; Schülerbefragung
Abstract	Commercial online instructor evaluations have gained traction in influencing students' decisions on professor and course selections at universities. RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) is the most popular of such evaluation tools and houses a wealth of information from the students' viewpoint. The purpose of this study was to determine whether RMP data could be used to analyze and inform general chemistry instruction at a particular institution. The entire RMP database for the general chemistry program was sampled to produce a subset of 60 random RMP entries from six instructors. Each entry was composed of ratings in several areas and open-ended comments. The quantitative RMP data were consistent with measures from the institutional Student Evaluation of Instruction forms corresponding to the same instructors. In addition, a survey investigating RMP use patterns demonstrated that general chemistry students who contributed to RMP were not significantly different from the rest of the cohort across seven academic and demographic comparison criteria. The RMP qualitative information was analyzed using an inductive approach from which seven categories emerged as important to students' learning environment. This analytical model allows for categorizing students' statements in a systematic and meaningful manner to extract valuable supplemental information usable for program evaluation. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10