Class size and teaching evaluation: Or, the "general chemistry effect

at improving existing teaching methods rather than eval- uating individual teachers. To gauge the quality of individ- ual instructors, regular student...
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Class Size and Teaching Evaluation Or, the "General Chemistry Effect" Revisited Sidney Toby Rutgers, the State University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 The satisfactory evaluation of teaching may be an unattainable goal because there is no general agreement on what are the criteria for effectiveteaching. One interesting approach has been to "plant" graduate students in undergraduate classes with the intention of obtaining a more meaningful critiaue than is normallv ~ossible(1)and using the results tb suggest improvements in frst-year college teachina in the sciences. This a~vroachis aimed more a