Across the nation, policymakers and education leaders share growing agreement that we must do a better job in measuring effective teaching and identifying effective teachers. And increasingly, there ...

Whatever else academic freedom means, at many colleges and universities, it is the right to teach however one wants without regard to learning outcomes. Indeed, at the more selective, better resourced ...

One thing most academics can agree on: How we evaluate our colleagues’ work in the classroom is a vexed system, badly in need of overhaul. A recent essay in The Chronicle, “How Peer Review Could ...

In a paper released Friday, a UC Berkeley professor and a campus consultant found student course evaluations do not properly measure teaching effectiveness. Philip Stark, chair and professor of ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are a popular measure of teaching effectiveness, which center students’ perspectives. However, research shows that SET scores have limitations, including ...

Phyllis Blumberg, in Assessing and Improving Your Teaching: Strategies and Rubrics for Faculty Growth and Student Learning (2013), identifies two primary goals of assessing teaching effectiveness. The ...

Instead of evaluating faculty based on their teaching ability, institutions often rely on scholarly output as a proxy for professional competence. These measures, while important, fail to account for ...

In contrast to end-of-course evaluations, feedback can be used to make changes during current courses. Students report feeling empowered to help craft their educational experience. Questions can be ...

The Ethiopian Journal of Education, Vol. 41, No. 1 (June 2021), pp. 153-197 (45 pages) The purposes of this classroom-based research were to assess the benefit of a cooperative-group methodology that ...

“...to take advantage of the energy for change that's ‘out there’ today will require not just different methods in the classroom but the development of a campus ...