CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF COURSE AND TEACHER EVALUATIONS

Tamara Sliusarenko, Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll

2010

Abstract

At the Technical University of Denmark course evaluations are performed by the students on a questionnaire. On one form the students are asked specific questions regarding the course. On a second form they are asked specific questions about the teacher. This study investigates the extent to which information obtained from the course evaluation form overlaps with information obtained from the teacher evaluation form. Employing canonical correlation analysis it was found that course and teacher evaluations are correlated. However, the structure of the canonical correlation is subject to change with changes in teaching methods from one year to another.

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Sliusarenko T. and Kjær Ersbøll B. (2010). CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF COURSE AND TEACHER EVALUATIONS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-674-024-5, pages 451-454. DOI: 10.5220/0002858904510454


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@conference{csedu10,
author={Tamara Sliusarenko and Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll},
title={CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF COURSE AND TEACHER EVALUATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2010},
pages={451-454},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002858904510454},
isbn={978-989-674-024-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF COURSE AND TEACHER EVALUATIONS
SN - 978-989-674-024-5
AU - Sliusarenko T.
AU - Kjær Ersbøll B.
PY - 2010
SP - 451
EP - 454
DO - 10.5220/0002858904510454