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When calculating average ratings for a professor over all instances of the same course (or all undergraduate courses), it is not weighted by class size. Thus low ratings for small-enrollment courses (i.e. CS 47A/B/C) disproportionately lower ratings for otherwise effective professors in large classes.
As part of data cleanup, I've removed 0 ratings before for 0-response course surveys, but I think it's unwise to remove unusual (but non-zero) low course ratings, instead re-weighting them by their class size (which is usually small).
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When calculating average ratings for a professor over all instances of the same course (or all undergraduate courses), it is not weighted by class size. Thus low ratings for small-enrollment courses (i.e. CS 47A/B/C) disproportionately lower ratings for otherwise effective professors in large classes.
Example: https://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/coursesurveys/instructor/Ranade,Gireeja
The offending issue is in this line of code, which naively calculates the unweighted average of all course effectiveness ratings:
hkn-rails/app/views/coursesurveys/instructor.html.haml
Line 189 in 95e1a69
As part of data cleanup, I've removed 0 ratings before for 0-response course surveys, but I think it's unwise to remove unusual (but non-zero) low course ratings, instead re-weighting them by their class size (which is usually small).
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: