A HISTORY OF STUDENT RATINGS: Meso-Meta Era (1980s)
The 1980s were really booooring! The research continued on a larger scale, and statistical reviews of the studies (a.k.a. meta-analyses) were conducted by such authors as Cohen (1980, 1981), d’Apollonia and Abrami (1997), and Feldman (1989). Of course, this period had to be labeled the Meso-Meta Era.
Book-wise, Peter Seldin of Pace University in upstate Saskatchewan published his first of thousands of books on the topic, Successful Faculty Evaluation Programs (1980). Ken Doyle produced his second book on the topic, Evaluating Teaching (1981), four years later (Are you still awake?).
The administration of student ratings metastasized throughout academe. By 1988, their use by college deans spiked to 80%, with still only a paltry 14% of deans gathering evidence on the technical aspects of their scales.
That takes us to—guess what? The next to last era in this blog series. Whew.
The next blog covers the 1990s with the major contributions by names you will know as gas prices spiked during the “Meso-Unleaded Era.”
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