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Students' Evaluation of Teaching and Course Performance

Studies examining the relationship between students' evaluation of teaching and grades obtained by the students typically report low positive associations (Costin, et al., 1971). To explore this relationship, two sections of abnormal psychology, taught by the same instructor, with objectively scored examinations, were given a form for students' evaluation of teaching to complete on the last day of class as they were taking the final examination. In this form, each student was asked to give an over-all rating of the teacher from 1 (very ineffective) to 7 (very effective) and a similar over-all rating of the course." The classes had a total of 47 students, of whom 25 were male. The mean rating given the instructor was 5.9 (SD = 1.0) and the mean rating given the course was 5.8 (SD = 0.8). There was no significant relationship between the evaluation of the teacher and the final score in the course ( r = 0.15, one-tailed p = 0.17, n = 46) or the total score up to but not including the final score ( r = 0.14, p = 0.18). Similarly, there was no association between the evaluation of the course and the final score in the course ( r = -0.02, p = 0.46, n = 30) or the total score up to but not including the final score ( r = -0:06, p = 0.38). Sex was not related to any of the examination scores, and not to the evaluation of the teacher and the course. This study, therefore, found no evidence that students' evaluation of an instructor was affected by their performance in the course.