SJSU Survey Errors Bias Questions
As a SJSU student, most of you are familiar with ratemyprofessor.comLinks to an external site.and SOTEs (Student Opinion of Teaching Effectiveness). Both use the survey method to gather students’ opinions on a specific course and/or an instructor. See Module B1 for three files: RateMyProfessor_1, RateMyProfessor_2, and SOTE statements. These files show the typical items or statements used in each survey. Both surveys may be subject to survey errors/biases covered in Ch. 7. In your post, 1) discuss at least two (2) such errors/biases that may occur to one or both surveys. 2) answer which survey result is more accurate in understanding the teaching effectiveness. And explain why.
