If student behaviors are directed toward achieving success on the evaluations, instructors' efforts to create a climate of self-directed learning and individual responsibility will be frustrated [ 12].
Instructor resistance, lack of administrator support, lack of facilities, effects on student evaluation of instructors, loss of content coverage and breadth, lack of ways to effectively assess student were all most often perceived to be not a barrier (mode = 1; Tables 2 and S1).
In particular, more than half of the respondents considered lack of administrator support and effects on student evaluation of instructors not to be a barrier (median; Table S1).
CoC does not normally undertake evaluation of instructor qualifications.
MANOVA show no statistically significant differences on two instrumental evaluation items: instructor is knowledgeable and organized.
Susan Murcott, a researcher in MIT's Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation and instructor in the MIT D-Lab, presents her work at TechCon 2014 at the University of California at Berkeley.
The researchers did not have access to the data until submission of the course grades for undergraduate students and performance evaluations for instructors and teaching assistants.
They say they were urged to accumulate credit card debt to pay for the courses and, according to testimony, were pressured to file positive evaluations of instructors, including some who had no real estate experience at all.
The last two sections are "Teaching Outside the Classroom," which treats matters such as office hours, communicating with students electronically, and academic advising, and "Finishing Up," which considers the issues of wrapping up a course, student evaluations of instructors, and letters of recommendation.
