Question

xx university uses the surveys submitted by students to determine pay bouses. They send a link to student email and also have paper survey during one of the last lectures of the semester. Surveys competed during the last lecture are collected by the lecturer and vrought to a central processing facility. The response rates to the survey are nomally low.

Q1 What type of errors or biases might exists that make using these survey for bonuses perhaps not ideal ?

Q2 what step(s) could the university complete to make the responses from these survey more accurate and representative of actual lecturer performance

Q3 Describe an alternative approach that you think would be superior to survey students to determine the top performing lecturer's at the university?

Answer 1

Q1:

Social Desirability Response Bias might exists that make using these survey for bonuses perhaps not ideal. Since it is an open paper survey, student will be reluctant to give his frank opinion on the performance of the lecturer.

Q2: The university can keep the survey response of the student about the lecturer performance confidential so that the lecturer will not know which student has given a particular response. Only the responses without the identity of the student should be evaluated for lecturer performance.

Q3 An alternative approach that you think would be superior to survey students to determine the top performing lecturer's at the university is as follows:

Instead of just relying on the response of the students, the lecturer's performance can be statistically evaluated in a rigorous manner on factors such as: (1) performance of the students in the subjects taught, (2) punctuality of the lecturer, (3) number of quiz, class tests, seminars etc. conducted by the lecturer (4) attendace of students in the lecturer's class etc.