Sunday, May 07, 2006
Cue Guide Evaluations
With the cue guide evaluations going on, I have been thinking a bit about their validity. Every year, there is a large number of people who do not participate in the survey. Since it is probably the same people not participating every year, the bias is most likely the same. The cue guide should do another survey for those who DIDN'T fill out a cue evaluation to determine why and possibly identify what kind of bias they provide. This could help give us cue users a more exact reading on courses. However, these people who didn't fill out the cue likely wouldn't fill out this other survey, so yeah. The question is, why didn't I think of this for my term paper?
// posted by Anonymous @ 4:43 PM 
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Even more than this, I am interested in testing something similar to this Brian Jacob paper I linked to earlier which showed that richer parents wanted more entertaining teachers for their kids, but poorer parents wanted the most skilled teachers. I'd love to look at the relationship between student background (like income, etc.) and selection of courses and ratings of different types of teachers among students at Harvard. Do Harvard students show a similar pattern? Do those who feel more secure in their future choose classes which are easier or more fun (regardless of whether they actually learn anything?)
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