A validation study of the faculty and course evaluation (FACE) instrument. Education and Psycho logical Measurement

Consistent with the distinction between student ratings (ratings assigned) and class ratals (ratings received), various properties of the FACE Instrument scales were investigated. Preliminary analyses revealed that the scales were composed of appropriate items and that the scales possessed high reliabilities. The distinction between stu-dent rating scales and class ratal scales was empirically verified. Similar factorial compositions were obtained for both sets of scales. Although for the student rating scales some support was found for convergent and discriminant validity, for the class ratal scales equivocal support for convergent validity and no support for dis-criminant validity were obtained. EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT 1976, 36, 391-400. THE Faculty And Course Evaluation (FACE) Instrument, as de-scribed by Sockloff and Deabler (1971), was constructed to obtain evaluations of college teachers and auxiliary teaching techniques in lecture-discussion courses. The instrument consists of 55 relatively &dquo;low inference&dquo; items (Rosenshine, 1970) with responses to each item made by students on the following five-point scale: (1) Extremely Unsuccessful, (2) Poor, (3) Satisfactory, (4) Good, and (5) Extremely Successful. The orientation of the scoring system is toward seven mutually exclusive scales, with each composed of an equally weighted combination of appropriate items. The number of items in each scal