Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 7, 2023
I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 7, 2023
I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 17, 2023
So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable.
Edsurge
JANUARY 15, 2021
From decades of scholarship on [anonymous] teaching evaluations, we know that this kind of app without due process is going to be aimed more at faculty of color and faculty who teach courses that are controversial, i.e. Black Lives Matter,” he said.
Edsurge
MARCH 17, 2020
And it stresses that staff should be protected against “the punitive use of negative teaching evaluations during the period of the disruption.” That’s a serious concern, Hardy explains, because "for many adjuncts, they are judged solely on student course evaluations.”
Edsurge
MARCH 27, 2020
Among the topics addressed were what colleges have learned from campuses in China, where COVID-19 hit sooner; whether the pandemic might lead to more adoption of microcredentials and other alternative higher-ed models; and whether colleges should do more to evaluate tech-teaching skills when evaluating faculty members.
Edsurge
JUNE 10, 2021
And research shows that professors who collect early-term feedback, and who use it to make changes to their courses with the help of a consultant, can raise their end-of-semester teaching evaluations. It’s one of the most effective approaches for changing teacher practices,” Gorman says. “In
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