What do MBA students think of teacher evaluations?

Abstract

Student evaluations of teaching effectiveness (SETE) have been extensively studied in the litera- ture with the central debates re- volving around the issues of va- lidity and reliability of the instru- ments used. Scant attention how- ever has been > paid in this litera- ture to student perceptions and views of SETEs and their useful- ness. This paper, presents the preliminary results from a survey of MBA students from two Indian business schools where (anony- mous) student evaluations of teachers are mandatory after course completion, and where they are also used as one of the key determinants for faculty pro- motion and tenure decisions. Most students felt that sin