Conflict of interest explains the size of student evaluation of teaching and learning correlations in multisection studies: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: We examined the associations between the size of student evaluation of teaching and learning (SET/learning) correlations and presence of several conflicts of interest (COIs) including corporate, administrative, evaluation unit, SET author, and funder interests. Our meta-analyses of SET/learning correlations reported by multisection studies show that researchers with a vested interest in finding large positive SET/learning correlations found, on average, large positive SET/learning correlations. In contrast, researchers with no identifiable COIs found that SET/learning correlations were zero or nearly zero. The largest SET/learning correlations were reported by authors with ties to SET selling corporations. Smaller but still substantial SET/learning correlations were reported by researchers

SUBMITTER: Uttl B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6611447 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature