W hen Phoebe Young began working at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an assistant professor of history in 2009, her annual teaching reviews were fairly perfunctory. Everyone knew, she says, ...

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 ...

A recent study examining credit evaluation across five public community colleges and universities found pronounced pain points for both learners and the campus personnel supporting them in evaluating ...

Evaluating teaching effectively requires thoughtful alignment with evidence-based practices and the inclusion of diverse perspectives. The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) supports departments and ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

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 ...

A recent story on the problem of how teaching is evaluated struck a chord with many in higher education. As our reporting showed, student course evaluations — which are known to be flawed measures — ...

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Regionals collaborates with the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) in Oxford in a commitment to support faculty in delivering high-quality learning ...

Hope College has always had effective, energizing instruction as one main priority. It is this spirit that guides the desire to continuously develop the instructional skills of faculty and academic ...

This 25-page handbook is written in a question-and-answer style and is a good starting point in understanding M&E. It provides an overview of some of the basic questions of project monitoring and ...