The latter instrument, the end-of-semester student evaluation, is an object of scorn, dread, praise, faith, and power in academe today. For those on the tenure track, there will be other teaching ...

By Linda Hartley, School of Education and Health Sciences; Jonathan Hess, College of Arts and Sciences; Kurt Jackson, Physical Therapy. Because the majority of faculty have been hired since our ...

Teaching is a complex and multi-faceted process, requiring multiple approaches to measurement which extend beyond student evaluations of teaching. Much of the richness of information is not ...

Alternatively, student evaluation may focus disproportionately on aspects of their experience that are irrelevant to the quality of teaching. SET has been widely criticised, for example, for its lack ...

Student evaluation of teaching, therefore, gleans only clamour. It hardly says anything about the quality of instruction. Judging the teachers is not the students' business.

Key points. Most colleges and universities rely heavily on student evaluation of teaching to evaluate faculty. Teaching evaluations should also be designed to help the development of the ...

Next, a mid-term conference including the student teacher, the cooperating teacher and the college supervisor, using the PDE-430. Then, a minimum of two more observations by the College supervisor ...

Delaware lawmakers are considering a bill to revamp the teacher evaluation system, aiming to move beyond standardized testing as the sole measure of student improvement. The proposed pilot program ...

Student evaluations have their faults (mainly that students tend to give high ratings to profs who are easy and fun and low ones to profs who are demanding), but the notion that they’re biased ...