Prioritizing teaching quality in a new system of teacher evaluation Download PDF Subscribe to the Education Outlook Series Teachers are the most important school-level factor in student success—but as ...

Miami University stresses the importance of high-quality teaching and its impact on student learning and recognizes that there are differing professional views on the nature and utility of evaluation ...

The great American philosopher John Dewey noted: “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” In the College of Arts and Sciences, we are all about creating more ...

This page offers clarification and updates to A&S personnel policies. A&S fulfills CU’s statutory mission to “recognize the exceptional opportunities associated with its role as a research university, ...

A forthcoming study by University of Missouri researchers finds that accounting for factors like poverty when comparing schools could lead to a more “effective and equitable” teacher-evaluation system ...

How do we define teaching quality? How should teachers be evaluated? And how should school systems make use of the evaluations? Vivien Stewart, senior advisor to Asia Society and the author of the ...

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 ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

Taking Tanzania as an example, this paper systematically analyzes the current situation and challenges of primary school ...

Student evaluations of teaching reflect students’ biases and are otherwise unreliable. So goes much of criticism of these evaluations, or SETs. Increasingly, research backs up both of those concerns.

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...