EDUC 628-Spring-08

In response to the blog below

http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/04/25/duh/

 where IDEA and Ratemyprofessor.com are compared at this blog, I have to agree with Cathy Bechtel’s comment because spend some time filling out these forms also.

From the IDEA website, the following was listed as criteria of their test, shown below.

Scores Adjusted for Extraneous Influences
A number of factors have been found to influence student ratings but are beyond the instructor’s control. Adjusted scores provide a mechanism to “level the playing field” for purposes of administrative decisions. We constantly focus our research efforts at refining the process for adjusting scores (Technical Report 12, Research Report 6). At this time, the Diagnostic Form adjusts for five factors

• Student motivation to take the class regardless of who taught it
• Student work habits
• Class size
• Student effort not attributable to the instructor
• Course difficulty not attributable to the instructor

The Short Form adjusts for three factors

• Student motivation to take the class regardless of who taught it
• Student work habits
• Class size

I don’t see anything about students motivation to take a class because of who taught it, because I have actually decided between two instructors before, in the event that I had to choose 1 class- because I already had one of the instructors already.