Association Between Adult Attachment Representations and Undergraduate Student Course Evaluations

Abstract

Students' course evaluations often play an important role in career advancement for faculty. The authors examined the association between attachment representations of parents and course evaluations in a sample of 230 undergraduate students. They found a significant negative association between attachment anxiety with parents and course evaluation, thereby suggesting that insecure-anxious students were more likely to give negative course evaluations. The authors provide suggestions for professors to improve their scores on student course evaluations.

Instructor Name Preference and Student Evaluations of Instruction

“…However, the appropriateness of SEIs in measuring teaching effectiveness has been called into question for decades. Whereas a meta-analysis found a moderate-sized correlation ( r = 0.31) between SETs and student achievement (Wright and Jenkins-Guarnieri 2012), SETs can be influenced by factors other than teaching quality (Henson and Scharfe 2011; Langbein 1994; Stroebe 2020; Youmans and Jee 2007). For example, correlations have been found between SEIs and the perceived easiness of a course, instructor physical attractiveness, course subject, and instructor gender (Rosen 2018).…”