Resources on Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs)
Authored by Sarah Lang (March, 2010)
Revised by Terri Tarr (April, 2014)
Due to the size of this bibliography, the references have been divided into subtopics. A few of the resources are repeated in multiple locations because they provide information and/or bibliographic references for more than one subtopic. Click on each topic to go to the list of resources on that topic. If you require tips for utilizing SETs, please see our tip sheets entitled Using Student Evaluations to Assess Teaching Effectiveness and Using Student Evaluations to Help Students Learn.
Table of Contents
Using Multiple Sources of Data to Evaluate Teaching Effectiveness
Reliability and Validity of SETs
SET Ratings versus Student Achievement
SET Ratings versus Student Learning
SET Ratings versus Faculty Changing/Improving Teaching Practices
SET Ratings versus Course Modality (online, blended, face-to-face)
SET Ratings versus Student Gender
SET Ratings versus Student Expected Grades
SET Ratings versus Student Perceptions of Rigor
SET Ratings versus Student Perceptions of Faculty Personality (including Non-Verbal Behaviors)
SET Ratings versus Faculty Grading Practices (including Discussions of Grade Inflation)
SET Ratings versus Faculty Gender (including Student Perceptions of Gender Roles)
SET Ratings versus Faculty Ethnicity
SET Ratings versus Faculty Sexual Orientation
SET Ratings versus Faculty Age
SET Ratings versus Faculty Rank
Methods to Improve the Fairness of SET Ratings