Date of Award
Summer 8-11-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Mathematics and Statistics
First Advisor
Dr. Yichuan Zhao
Second Advisor
Dr. Xu Zhang
Third Advisor
Dr. Yuanhui Xiao
Abstract
Most American universities and colleges require students to provide faculty evaluation at end of each academic term, as a way of measuring faculty teaching performance. Although some analysts think that this kind of evaluation does not necessarily provide a good measurement of teaching effectiveness, there is a growing agreement in the academic world about its reliability. This study attempts to find any strong statistical evidence supporting faculty evaluation by students as a measure of faculty teaching effectiveness. Emphasis will be on analyzing relationships between instructor ratings by students and corresponding students’ grades. Various statistical methods are applied to analyze a sample of real data and derive conclusions. Methods considered include multivariate statistical analysis, principal component analysis, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Spearman's and Kendall’s rank correlation coefficients, linear and logistic regression analysis.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/2044896
Recommended Citation
Twagirumukiza, Etienne, "Analysis of Faculty Evaluation by Students as a Reliable Measure of Faculty Teaching Performance." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/2044896