When I began my teaching career two decades ago as an adjunct instructor, I cared a lot about my end-of-course student evaluations—but quite frankly—they mostly served as a means to job security. Over ...

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 ...

Teacher evaluation has, until recently, been a symbolic act largely without meaning or consequence. No longer. Race to the Top requirements call for performance-based pay. The Bill & Melinda Gates ...

The Division of Evaluation, Assessment and Education Research within the School of Medicine provides expertise, advising and administrative support related to program evaluation, performance ...

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 ...

This 25-page handbook is written in a question-and-answer style and is a good starting point in understanding M&E. It provides an overview of some of the basic questions of project monitoring and ...

Throughout the course of the semester, there may be little we can do to change objectives and content, and less we can do about course size or location. But, we can address our approach and reconsider ...

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Regionals collaborates with the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) in Oxford in a commitment to support faculty in delivering high-quality learning ...

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 ...

I n the fall of 2019, while compiling my files for promotion, I spent some time looking over my teaching evaluations from the previous three years. I was a bit shook. One student complained that I ...