Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) - what is their real value?
If you're aiming to make a career out of teaching at university, you'll soon become very familiar with some of the common 'metrics' used to evaluate your performance, including the Student Evaluation of Course (SEC) and Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET). Typically they involve a series of standardised questions and a corresponding 5-point Likert scale to collect responses, with some additional space for 'free-form' written responses. Students are asked to fill these survey
