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Tool Name
Student Surveys

Evaluation Type
Parent and Student Surveys

Subject
All Subjects

Grade
Middle Grades

Use of Evaluation
Formative

Professional Status
Teacher

URL
No URL is currently available for this instrument.

Developer
This product was developed by Leonidas Kyriakides, Frank C. Worrell, Laura D. Kuterbach, and John Follman.

Product Description
Student surveys can be used to help inform instruction and have been shown to be useful forms of formative assessment for teachers of academically talented and regular education high school students. Kyriakides designed student surveys and examined the reliability and validity of student ratings of teachers in Grade 6 classrooms in Cyprus. He found that measures of teacher-student relationships and cooperation were correlated with student achievement in mathematics, language, and affective outcomes.

General Target Population Information
As long as student surveys are written well and account for students' developmental level, they can be informative to teachers at all levels, in all subjects. Kyriakides used student surveys with Grade 6 teachers.

Stage of Development
All Stages

Users
Several researchers and evaluators have used student surveys in research. The validity of the instrument in predicting student achievement has been shown through the research cited below.

Research and Resources
Follman, J. (1992). Secondary school students' ratings of teacher effectiveness. The High School Journal, 75(1), 168–178.

Follman, J. (1995). Elementary public school pupil rating of teacher effectiveness. Child Study Journal, 25(1), 57–78.

Kyriakides, L. (2005). Drawing from teacher effectiveness research and research into teacher interpersonal behaviour to establish a teacher evaluation system: A study on the use of student ratings to evaluate teacher behavior. Journal of Classroom Interaction, 40(2), 44–66. Worrell, F. C., & Kuterbach, L. D. (2001). The use of student ratings of teacher behaviors with academically talented high school students. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 14(4), 236–247.

Cost
To date, these instruments have been used for research purposes and have not been marketed for commercial or general use.

Contact Information
Leonidas Kyriakides
Department of Education 
University of Cyprus
P.O. Box 20537
Nicosia 1678

Cyprus Frank C. Worrell
Professor
Cognition and Development Office
University of California–Berkeley
4427 Tolman Hall (Mailbox 4511)
Berkeley, CA 94720 
Phone: 510-643-4891
E-Mail: frankc@berkeley.edu

Support Available
To date, these instruments have been used for research purposes only; technical support is not generally available.