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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Observe and evaluate student teaching performance using established criteria a minimum of four times. More visits are possible at the request of the student teacher, the cooperating teacher, or if the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Managing student behavior is a perennial teaching challenge—and one novice teachers invariably feel unprepared to face, amid ...