Examining the Emotional Tone of Student Evaluations of Teaching

• Published in: Canadian journal of learning and technology Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
• Main Author: Newman, Derek
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) 01.12.2025
• Subjects: academia; emotional tone; student evaluation of teaching; student evaluations

Student-written evaluation (N = 600) of professors was examined to determine the emotional tone of the words used to evaluate faculty. Using the revised Dictionary of Affect (DOA; Whissell, 2009), evaluation words (N = 26,764) uploaded to the Rate My Professors website between 2018 and October of 20...