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Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our AdviceĀ 

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Jenni coordinated advisory board meetings and acted as the accreditation liaison for her entire department, and her teaching evaluations were strong. A dedicated professional, with service hours, a record of scholarship, and stellar teaching evaluations should receive advancement in rank and tenure.

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Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our AdviceĀ 

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Jenni coordinated advisory board meetings and acted as the accreditation liaison for her entire department, and her teaching evaluations were strong. A dedicated professional, with service hours, a record of scholarship, and stellar teaching evaluations should receive advancement in rank and tenure.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

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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 ā€œhow to recover from poor teaching evaluationsā€ and ā€œis tenure still possible after low evaluationsā€ but found nothing. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

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 ā€œhow to recover from poor teaching evaluationsā€ and ā€œis tenure still possible after low evaluationsā€ but found nothing. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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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.

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U. of Florida Asks Students to Use App to Report Profs Who Donā€˜t Teach In Person

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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,ā€ he said.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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And it stresses that staff should be protected against ā€œthe punitive use of negative teaching evaluations during the period of the disruption.ā€ That’s a serious concern, Hardy explains, because "for many adjuncts, they are judged solely on student course evaluations.ā€