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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Feedback (from student re quality)

Overview

  • Influence: Feedback (from student re quality)
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Feedback
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Student evaluations of the quality of teachers.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 12
  • Number of studies: 300
  • Number of students: 1,698
  • Number of effects: 429
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.47
  • Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Research in Higher Education Cohen USA Effectiveness of student-rating feedback for improving college instruction: A meta-analysis of findings 1980 Feedback from student ratings 22 0 22 0.33
Review of Educational Research Cohen USA Student Ratings of Instruction and Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of Multisection Validity Studies 1981 Student rating of teacher 19 0 19 0.68
Review of Educational Research Cohen USA Student Ratings of Instruction and Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of Multisection Validity Studies 1981 Student rating of teacher 41 0 68 0.48
Journal of Educational Psychology L'Hommedieu, Menges, & Brinko USA Methodological explanations for the modest effects of feedback from student ratings 1990 Feedback from college student ratings 28 1,698 28 0.34
ERIC Menges & Brinko USA Effects of Student Evaluation Feedback: A Meta-Analysis of Higher Education Research 1986 Student evaluation as feedback 27 0 31 0.44
Conference paper Cohen USA An Updated Expanded Meta-Analysis of Multisection Student Rating Validity Studies 1986 Student rating of teacher 47 0 74 0.44
Journal of Marketing Education Clayson USA Student evaluations of teaching: Are they related to what students learn? A meta-analysis and review of the literature 2009 Student rating of teacher 17 0 42 0.66
Journal of Higher Education Dowell & Neal USA A selective review of the validity of student ratings of teaching 1982 Student rating of teacher 6 0 6 0.40
Studies in Educational Evaluation Uttl, White, & Gonzalez Canada Meta-analysis of faculty's teaching effectiveness: Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related 2017 Student rating of learning 51 0 97 0.47
Review of Educational Research Penny & Coe UK Effectiveness of consultation on student ratings feedback: A meta-analysis 2004 Consultation after student feedback 11 0 11 0.69
Research in Higher Education McCallum USA A meta-analysis of course evaluation data and its use in the tenure decision 1984 Teacher rating and achievement 14 0 14 0.68
Book Röhl Germany Effects of Student Feedback on Teaching and Classes: An Overview and Meta-Analysis of Intervention Studies. 2021 High school students rating of quality 17 0 17 0.21
TOTAL/AVERAGE 300 1,698 429 0.48
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