The use of student opinions for evaluating college teaching dates back to 1920s, particularly the work of Remmers (1927, 1928, 1930) and his colleagues (Brandenburg and Remmers 1927; Remmers and Brandenburg 1927) in Purdue University (Başaran, Kalaycı, & Atay, 2011). Since this time the concept of student evaluation has undergone significant changes which, according to Centra (1993) can be categorized into four historical time frames.

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