Analysis of responses to the Student Opinion Form
By: Ronald A. Weitzman
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Dept. of Administrative Sciences
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Subjects: TEACHING METHODS; COURSES(EDUCATION)
Other titles: NPS-AS-92-017.
Description: Student Opinion Form data on 1610 classes taught in the Department of Administrative      Science between 1983 and 1.990 were subjected to SAS analyses employing principally the      General Linear Model procedure. The independent variables included Faculty (identified by      the two-letter mail code) and Course (e.g., MN3111), and the dependent variable was      Mean Item 12 (opinion of instructor, measured on a 5-point scale). The principal results      were that Course and Faculty accounted for 66% of the variation In Mean Item 12, with      Course accounting for 35% and Faculty for the remaining 31 %. Class Size and Majority      Curriculum, by contrast, together accounted for considerably less than 1 %. A major      implication of these results is that the appropriate bench mark for comparison In evaluating      an instructor's effectiveness in class is not the overall average (across all classes) of 4,03 on      Mean Item 12 but the average for the course taught. Mean Item 12 averages are presented      for all 131 Administrative Sciences courses in the data set.
Notes: Title from cover.

"NPS-AS-92-017."

"July 1992."

AD A255 188.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 13)

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