Students’ Rating: Is it a Measure of an Effective Teaching or Best Gauge of Learning?

This paper discusses the issue of how students’ rating could reflect on the effectiveness of teaching or gauge students’ learning. Student ratings of instruction are not the best gauge of learning. To boost student ratings we have created an evidence of their learning. Ratings of overall teaching effectiveness are moderately correlated with independent measures of student learning and achievement. At one time, it was considered contentious to administer student rating forms. Now such forms have become commonplace because it makes sense to survey students to find out what they think about their experiences in the class over the term. Also new suggestions that reflect on students’ learning and creative thinking were proposed here and consequently students rating form has been updated.