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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Not too long ago, researchers at a large Midwestern university arranged to have a speaker give the ...

It’s that time of year when faculty exhilaration at the arrival of summer break is tempered only by a sense of dread over what we’ll find in our latest batch of course evaluations. Even the most ...

Yet another study is challenging the idea that student evaluations of teaching reliably measure what they’re intended to measure: instructional quality. The new study, available now as a preprint, ...

"The idea of student evaluations as an assessment tool to help instructors figure out how well they are teaching has become a hot topic on most campuses," relates Terry Favero, an assistant professor ...

Effective teaching requires teacher confidence. It impacts teachers' performance and students’ reactions and learning outcomes. However, as we expected, there are major differences between male and ...

A trio of researchers from the University of Cincinnati, the University of Colorado Boulder and Clemson University has found that college students giving evaluations of their professors in upper-level ...

For many years as a teacher, like countless others in the profession, I have experienced a familiar, even reassuring, pattern to the end of the semester. After a last-minute review session -- during ...

“Block is a conceited, sanctimonious, egotistical, close-minded, arrogant, and downright rude ideologue and left-wing propagandist … That she is on your payroll at the University of California, Irvine ...

In recent years many universities switched from paper- to online-based student evaluation of teaching (SET) without knowing the consequences for data quality. Based on a series of three consecutive ...