Evaluating teaching effectively requires thoughtful alignment with evidence-based practices and the inclusion of diverse perspectives. The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) supports departments and ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

W hen Phoebe Young began working at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an assistant professor of history in 2009, her annual teaching reviews were fairly perfunctory. Everyone knew, she says, ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that has not deposited records to the Records Office. Student ratings have long been used by many institutions of higher education as a primary form of ...

Colleges and universities all over the United States are striding through the fall term. Some are already at midterms, six weeks in. Others have just started within the last week. Millions of students ...

At RIT, we are committed to providing our students with a high quality education. The evaluation of teaching effectiveness is a critical part of that commitment. Each semester, during weeks 13 through ...

Students are accustomed to being evaluated at the end of each semester. But professors, too, receive critiques and criticisms for their performance in the form of teaching evaluations. Evaluations can ...

This list of advantages can evaluate when to use the lecture as a teaching mode. If the content would benefit from giving a lecture, the next stage is to take steps to combat the problems and enemies.

Student evaluations of my spring English composition course arrived the other day, and I read them with the usual stew of satisfaction, frustration, and puzzlement. The numbers looked good, and I ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...