STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF LEARNING AND …

TMSTUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF LEARNING AND INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN COLLEGE COURSES A VALIDITY STUDY OF SIR II John A. Centra and Noreen B. Gaubatz When students evaluate course instruction highly we would hope it is because the instruction has produced effective LEARNING . This tenet is in fact the basis for many validity studies that have been conducted with STUDENT evaluations of courses and teachers. A study in the mid-1970s with the original STUDENT Instructional Report (SIR) is a good example of a validity study that compared ratings to estimates of STUDENT LEARNING . Final exam scores from seven courses were correlated with STUDENT ratings from the SIR (Centra, 1977).

critical thinking skills, interpersonal outcomes (e.g. cooperative abilities), intrapersonal outcomes (e.g. self-understanding) and other broad course outcomes (Koon and Murray, 1995). In fact one study found that student perceptions of learning in a course correlated much higher with student ratings of instruction than did differences in

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