How Do Student Ratings Measure Up to a New Validity Framework?

  1. John C. Ory1,
  2. Katherine Ryan2

Article first published online: 28 JAN 2002

DOI: 10.1002/ir.2

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New Directions for Institutional Research

New Directions for Institutional Research

Special Issue: The Student Ratings Debate: Are They Valid? How Can We Best Use Them?

Volume 2001, Issue 109, pages 27–44, Spring 2001

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Ory, J. C. and Ryan, K. (2001), How Do Student Ratings Measure Up to a New Validity Framework?. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2001: 27–44. doi: 10.1002/ir.2

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  1. 1

    John C. Ory is director of the Office of Instructional Resources and professor of human resources education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  2. 2

    Katherine Ryan is associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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  1. Issue published online: 28 JAN 2002
  2. Article first published online: 28 JAN 2002

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Abstract

The authors examine student ratings within a new framework that emphasizes six distinct aspects of validity: content, substantive, structural, generalizability, external, and consequential. They conclude that greater attention should be directed toward consequential validity, particularly the matters of how ratings are used on today's campuses and what happens as a result.

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