caa a22 4500 477138608 CHVBK 20180405111726.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1024918711471 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1024918711471 Chau Chak-Tong Division of Accounting and Information Systems, College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio, 78249, San Antonio, TX aut A Bootstrap Experiment on the Statistical Properties of Students' Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness [Elektronische Daten] [Chak-Tong Chau] This paper examines the effects of two background variables in students' ratings of teaching effectiveness (SETs): class size and students' motivation (as surrogated by students' likelihood to respond randomly). Resampling simulation methodology has been employed to test the sensitivity of the SET scale for three hypothetical instructors (excellent, average, and poor). In an ideal scenario without confounding factors, SET statistics unmistakably distinguish the instructors. However, at different class sizes and levels of random responses, SET class averages are significantly biased. Results suggest that evaluations based on SET statistics should look at more than class averages. Resampling methodology (bootstrap simulation) is useful for SET research for scale sensitivity study, research results validation, and actual SET score analyses. Examples will be given on how bootstrap simulation can be applied to real-life SET data comparison. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1997 Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/4(1997-08-01), 497-517 0361-0365 38:4<497 1997 38 11162 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024918711471 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024918711471 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chau Chak-Tong Division of Accounting and Information Systems, College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio, 78249, San Antonio, TX aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/4(1997-08-01), 497-517 0361-0365 38:4<497 1997 38 11162 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer