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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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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Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 108

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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Hardy is an adjunct instructor who teaches at two institutions in the greater Boston area, which means she’s had to follow two sets of instructions for dealing with the coronavirus, adhere to two timelines for preparing for distance teaching and hastily learn two separate technology systems for delivering lectures virtually. “As

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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.

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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.

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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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