Title :
Are Student Perceptions of the Instructor Muted in Online Classes?
Author_Institution :
Organ. Leadership & Supervision, Purdue Univ. Calumet, Hammond, IN
Abstract :
This paper presents a comparison and analysis of some of the summative course evaluation data for a 200-level course offered in fall 2002 and spring 2003 in both traditional and online formats. The data suggest that students\´ perceptions of the instructor are muted in the online format, resulting in more evaluation responses of "neither agree nor disagree" in questions evaluating the instructor in the online courses. Instructors in online courses should be aware of this effect, and structure their summative evaluations in a way which will yield useful data. Online instructors may need to rethink the types of questions asked in summative evaluations, or at the very least the ways in which these questions are phrased. It may be useful to monitor this trend in online courses to see if there is any impact on overall course evaluations, which could carry over into tenure and promotion decisions
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational courses; course evaluation data; online courses; online instructor evaluation; online teaching format; student perceptions; Computer aided instruction; Data analysis; Data engineering; Flexible manufacturing systems; Job shop scheduling; Monitoring; Performance analysis; Springs; Statistical analysis; Urban areas; Course evaluations; Distance learning; Instructor evaluations; Summative evaluations;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Indianopolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9077-6
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2005.1611936
