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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stanley Fish bemoans the use of student evaluations -- which can seem capricious at best and misleading at worst -- as a means of evaluating teaching performance (“Who’s in Charge Here?,” Careers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benton County Circuit Judge Robin Green ordered former Bentonville School District employee accused of sexually assaulting a ...

Kathy is a lecturer within the First Year College at Victoria University. Dianne Hall is employed by Victoria University. She has recieved funding from the Australian Research Council. Kate Kelly and ...