It’s almost midterm, a time to gauge just how well our students are learning the material we are teaching them. But what about our performance? Who is evaluating how we are doing, if we’re being ...

Question: I work twice as hard at teaching as anyone I know, but I still can’t get good student evaluations. I’ve tried outlines and keywords on the board, handouts, individual meetings, midterm ...

In contrast to end-of-course evaluations, feedback can be used to make changes during current courses. Students report feeling empowered to help craft their educational experience. Questions can be ...

Phyllis Blumberg, in Assessing and Improving Your Teaching: Strategies and Rubrics for Faculty Growth and Student Learning (2013), identifies two primary goals of assessing teaching effectiveness. The ...

Students are accustomed to being evaluated at the end of each semester. But professors, too, receive critiques and criticisms for their performance in the form of teaching evaluations. Evaluations can ...

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 ...

With the wide array of resources available, and consultation support from the College of Arts and Sciences staff and the Teaching Quality Framework (TQF), this summary provides an outline of an ...

Ball State University promotes diversity and does not tolerate discrimination. Everyone says they can agree on that. But the best way to gauge how professors live up to that standard isn’t quite ...