The students who used personas were awarded higher course evaluations that the group who did not.
In this study, Fox tests whether difficulty of recall influences judgment, specifically with course evaluations among college students.
His research includes psychometrics, course evaluations, Rasch measurement models, teaching statistics, and teacher testing.
It is apparent that course evaluation and judgement of aims both form part of the wider area of educational decision making.
In addition, most of us face complexities such as performance appraisal, staff appraisal, course evaluation.
And in at least one case, computer access to course evaluations has become a commercial venture.
Students at Virginia Tech, on the other hand, created their own Web site last year after failing to persuade administrators to release official course evaluations.
On the other hand, professors are occasionally jolted by the course evaluations that students submit.
Students have the option to reflect on the teachers' instruction without fear of punishment because course evaluations are completely confidential and anonymous.
However, similar to the economic literature other researchers outside of educational psychology have offered negative findings on course evaluations.