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1Midwestern University, College of Pharmacy - Glendale, Glendale, AZ, USA.
Abstract:
Student evaluations of teaching are used at many schools and colleges of pharmacy as the primary, often exclusive, means of assessing the quality of instruction and instructor performance. As such, they can be pivotal in annual performance evaluations and rank and tenure decisions. However, serious concerns have been raised about these ubiquitous surveys and how, or even if, they should be used to measure the quality of instruction or the performance of the instructor. This commentary discusses concerns that have been raised about using student evaluations of teaching scores to assess teaching performance and offers recommendations for how they can be better interpreted and used in schools and colleges of pharmacy.
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