title: The evaluation of teaching effectiveness: the myths about student ratings.
abstract: This study presented to a conceptual framework for gathering and using student ratings to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Within the framework student evaluations of all courses of a second year pathophysiology curriculum were analyzed. Data analyses indicated student evaluations of courses and teaching activities were not related to the grades students received, nor did they varyin relation to the time they were obtained.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching