A couple of weeks after the end of my first semester of teaching as the instructor of record, I received “the packet” in my campus mailbox — an interoffice envelope stuffed with course evaluations ...

Student evaluations subject professors to perverse incentives.

The saddest and most profound transformation I have witnessed nationwide in my many decades in higher education is professors’ increasing fear of college students. This fear, borne of the increasing ...

The following, focused on the Greater Altoona Career and Technical Center, is the final installment of the series looking into how Blair County schools fared on the state assessment tests. Vocation ...

When I began my teaching career two decades ago as an adjunct instructor, I cared a lot about my end-of-course student evaluations—but quite frankly—they mostly served as a means to job security. Over ...

Formal Evaluation by the Site director: Site directors serve as the main liaison between Drexel University and the school where the teacher candidate is placed. The site director is expected to visit ...

Questioning what student evaluations of teaching actually measure, various institutions have already said they won't use them in high-stakes personnel decisions or as the primary measure of teaching ...

The Algoma District School Board (ADSB), located in Ontario, Canada, serves a diverse group of 9,400 students across 39 elementary and 10 secondary schools. Through our strategic priorities of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Not too long ago, researchers at a large Midwestern university arranged to have a speaker give the ...

In general, all hourly-student employees working for organizational units within the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Life will receive an evaluation of their work performance. Regular, on-going ...

Tis the season for student evaluations of their instructors, so I thought I’d share some thoughts on how best for administrators to read them. In a phrase: look for outliers. It’s really about ...

The way Texas' private school voucher program prioritizes students with disabilities relies on evaluations by public schools.