How do Student Evaluations of Courses and of Instructors Relate?

Tamara Sliusarenko, Line H. Clemmensen, Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll

2014

Abstract

Course evaluations are widely used by educational institutions to assess the quality of teaching. At the course evaluations, students are usually asked to rate different aspects of the course and of the teaching. We propose to apply canonical correlation analysis (CCA) in order to investigate the degree of association between how students evaluate the course and how students evaluate the teacher. Additionally it is possible to reveal the structure of this association. Student evaluations data is characterized by high correlations between the variables within each set of variables, therefore two modifications of the CCA method; regularized CCA and sparse CCA, together with classical CCA were applied to find the most interpretable model. Both methods give results with increased interpretability over traditional CCA on the present student evaluation data. The method shows robustness when evaluations over several years are examined.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sliusarenko T., H. Clemmensen L. and Kjær Ersbøll B. (2014). How do Student Evaluations of Courses and of Instructors Relate? . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-021-5, pages 280-287. DOI: 10.5220/0004945902800287

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu14,
author={Tamara Sliusarenko and Line H. Clemmensen and Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll},
title={How do Student Evaluations of Courses and of Instructors Relate?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={280-287},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004945902800287},
isbn={978-989-758-021-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - How do Student Evaluations of Courses and of Instructors Relate?
SN - 978-989-758-021-5
AU - Sliusarenko T.
AU - H. Clemmensen L.
AU - Kjær Ersbøll B.
PY - 2014
SP - 280
EP - 287
DO - 10.5220/0004945902800287