Improving Judgments About Teaching Effectiveness: How to Lie Without Statistics

  1. Philip C. Abrami

Article first published online: 28 JAN 2002

DOI: 10.1002/ir.6

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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 97–102, Spring 2001

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Abrami, P. C. (2001), Improving Judgments About Teaching Effectiveness: How to Lie Without Statistics. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2001: 97–102. doi: 10.1002/ir.6

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  1. Philip C. Abrami is professor and director of the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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

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Abstract

In this rejoinder, Abrami organizes his comments around two themes: statistical and measurement issues and applicability and usefulness issues. He concludes that his earlier suggestions for improving judgments about teaching effectiveness can accomplish their objectives.

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