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, ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

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 ...

A recent story on the problem of how teaching is evaluated struck a chord with many in higher education. As our reporting showed, student course evaluations — which are known to be flawed measures — ...

Over the past few decades, colleges and universities have become increasingly corporatized, to the point that students are seen as consumers who are recruited through promises of a safe and wonderful ...

Educational researchers have found that effective teachers share several characteristics (e.g., Angelo and Cross, 1993; Davis, 1993; Murray, 1991; Reynolds, 1992 ...

To use a 16th-century expression, MU just bought a “pig in a poke.” That is, it bought something of far less value than promised. The MU Faculty Council has adopted a new, untested student evaluation ...

Amid the rising tide of grade inflation, some faculty members have voiced concerns that student course evaluations may incentivize professors in the tenure and promotion process to award higher grades ...

This school year, school districts nationwide have begun implementing new teacher evaluation systems that include student test scores. Since 2009, the number of states requiring student scores to ...

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 ...