A Validation Study of an Instrument Designed to Measure Teaching Effectiveness

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This article reports the results of a validation study of Hudson's Teaching Evaluation Form (TEF), a measure of teaching effectiveness based on student evaluations. Analyses of data from two independent pilot tests (involving 1,707 students, Spring/Summer 1994) and from three schools of social work (1,649 students, Spring 1996) showed that internal consistency reliability coefficients were extraordinarily high across the five samples. The results of factor analysis demonstrated the content and construct validity of the TEF. Finally, comparison, through logistic regression, with deans' ratings of teaching effectiveness strongly supported the convergent construct validity of the instrument.

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Cathy King Pike

The author wishes to thank Walter W. Hudson for the summary and reliability analysis results from his pilot test of the instrument and his encouragement of this study. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Baccalaureate Program Directors' Meeting, Portland, OR, October 1996, and at the 43rd Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Chicago, IL, March 1997.