Episode 86: When Can We Trust Our Students’ Perceptions of Their Own Learning?

About Episode 86:

Student evaluation of instruction is often contentious. In this episode, guest Dr. Barbara Zorn joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to share findings from a data mining research study of end of term evaluations from 60,000 online courses. Research in this area guides our field in using these evaluations effectively.

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Coffee Links

• Sumatra from The Unseen Bean, Boulder, CO
• About Blind Master Coffee Roaster, Gerry Leary of The Unseen Bean

Content Links

• Dr. Barbara Zorn’s Institutional Bio
• Dr. Zorn’s LinkedIn Profile
• Dr. Zorn’s Publications via Google Scholar
• Dr. Zorn’s “Best in Track” OLC Accelerate 2019 Session Page
• From the “OLC Insights” Blog: “What Can End-of-Course Surveys Do For You?” (Selhorst & Zorn)
• Book Chapter Research Report: “Dr. Fox Rocks: Using Data-mining Techniques to Examine Student Ratings of Instruction” (Dziuban, Wang, Cook, and Moskal, 2009)
• Journal Article: “The Doctor Fox Lecture: A Paradigm of Educational Seduction” (1973)
• Journal Article: “Meta-Analysis of Faculty’s Teaching Effectiveness: Student Evaluation of Teaching Ratings and Student Learning are Not Related” (2017)
• Journal Article: “Student Evaluation of Instruction in Higher Education: Exploring Issues of Validity and Reliability” (2012)
• In Inside Higher Ed: “Even ‘Valid’ Student Evaluations Are ‘Unfair’”

Extra Special Feature

• Video Version of This Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” recording by Tom and Kelvin)