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).

Although final course examination scores have been the primary criterion for establishing the validity of student evaluations, the scores reflect only a limited view of student learning outcomes. More comprehensive indicators of student learning would go beyond a single exam score, which typically reflects only narrowly defined course objectives.

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