Student Ratings Knowledge Base

The following contains an array of information and resources about the implications of utilizing student ratings:

Student Ratings Research Reports

The IDEA Center's research staff has conducted a variety of studies to advance our understanding of teaching and learning, and to improve the use and interpretation of information provided to IDEA users.

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Relationship of Teaching Methods to Learning Objectives

PDF with a chart that illustrates the correlations between identified learning obectives and corresponding teaching methods. These correlations were derived by analyzing the data from numerous administrations of Student Ratings of Instruction at multiple sites over multiple years:

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Value and Limitations of Student Ratings

Student ratings of instruction have been the subject of over 2,000 published research studies. The vast majority of these offer assurance that ratings possess acceptable reliability (if there are at least 10 raters). Ratings have also been shown to be reasonably valid in a number of different ways. Perhaps the most convincing of these are the studies of multiple sections of large courses in which student ratings were highest for instructors whose students made the best grades on a common final examination.

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