{"id":5399,"date":"2011-02-11T13:31:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T13:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/11\/academic-poll-correlation-and\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T13:31:23","slug":"academic-poll-correlation-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/11\/academic-poll-correlation-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Poll: Correlation and Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The always fraught question of student course evaluations has come up again on campus. In discussions, the correlation between &#8220;expected grade&#8221; and &#8220;overall evaluation&#8221; has once again been noted&#8211; that is, students who report expecting a higher grade are more likely to give a good overall score to their professors than students who expect a lower grade. Which, of course, does not indicate a causal relationship between those two things, but that doesn&#8217;t stop us from spinning hypotheses. Thus, a poll question:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/4537778.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/4537778\/\">There is a positive correlation between the expected grade reported and the evaluations given to faculty. The best explanation for this is:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">customer surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Failure to respond to this poll will result in failure in the course, so please vote early and often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The always fraught question of student course evaluations has come up again on campus. In discussions, the correlation between &#8220;expected grade&#8221; and &#8220;overall evaluation&#8221; has once again been noted&#8211; that is, students who report expecting a higher grade are more likely to give a good overall score to their professors than students who expect a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/11\/academic-poll-correlation-and\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic Poll: Correlation and Evaluation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,137,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-polls","category-socialscience","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}