How does grade inflation affect student evaluation of teaching?

IF 4.1 2区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-09-25 DOI:10.1080/02602938.2022.2126429

Byung-Ryun Park, Joonmo Cho

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Abstract

Abstract Student evaluation of teaching (SET) is important for assessing university instructors’ performance. However, this system seems biased as students’ grade expectations result in rewards or penalties in SET. As a fair evaluation of grades became difficult during the COVID-19 pandemic, universities implemented a relaxed grade policy that expanded the distribution of high grades. This grade inflation altered students’ expected grade. Through empirical analysis, this study examined the change in the relationship between bias and SET due to grade inflation. A top-ranking South Korean university provided 125,003 cases of SET data in 2019 and 2020 for the analysis. Grade inflation diminished the biasing effect on SET, mainly in terms of reward. Furthermore, the group with the lowest grade point average (GPA) showed the highest decrease in rewards, and the group with the highest GPA showed maximum decrease in punishment. This finding implies that a change in expected grades due to factors other than lectures may alter students’ attitudes toward SET, and grade expectations may play a key role in reducing bias in SET.

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分数膨胀如何影响学生对教学的评价?

摘要学生教学评价是评价高校教师工作绩效的重要手段。然而，这种制度似乎有偏见，因为学生对成绩的期望导致了SET的奖励或惩罚。在新冠肺炎疫情期间，由于难以公平评价成绩，各大学实施了放宽成绩政策，扩大了高分的分配。这种分数膨胀改变了学生的预期分数。通过实证分析，本研究考察了分数膨胀对偏差与SET关系的影响。韩国一所顶尖大学在2019年和2020年提供了125003例SET数据用于分析。分数膨胀减少了对SET的偏倚效应，主要是在奖励方面。此外，平均绩点(GPA)最低的一组奖励减少幅度最大，而GPA最高的一组惩罚减少幅度最大。这一发现表明，由于讲课以外的因素而导致的期望成绩的变化可能会改变学生对SET的态度，并且期望成绩可能在减少SET偏见方面发挥关键作用。

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Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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15.90%

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