Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Semester of Degree Completion

1975

Thesis Director

John J. Rearden

Abstract

The relationship between student gain, as measured by pre and post achievement test measures, and a teacher evaluation checklist, the Student Evaluation of College Teaching Behaviors Instrument (SECTB), was examined in an attempt to validate the eight factors in the SECTB. Sixty seven students in three sections of introductory psychology were measured on both instruments. Results of this study do not support a relationship between student gain and the SECTB. The only significant correlate of gain was a factor measuring nature of presentation (r = -.468) and this correlation was found in only one section. In this section there was a surprisingly large number of significant interfactor correlations (62%) in the SECTB. Only three of the 45 items discriminated between high and low gain scores. The relationship of gain and student ratings awaits refinements in measuring both characteristics.

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