Stanley Fish bemoans the use of student evaluations -- which can seem capricious at best and misleading at worst -- as a means of evaluating teaching performance (“Who’s in Charge Here?,” Careers, ...

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 ...

Not too long ago, researchers at a large Midwestern university arranged to have a speaker give the same lecture to 154 undergraduates enrolled in eight sections of a required course. Or almost the ...

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 ...

Yet another study is challenging the idea that student evaluations of teaching reliably measure what they’re intended to measure: instructional quality. The new study, available now as a preprint, ...

Cornell Health Director of Strategic Planning and Data Analysis Abigail Dubovi, Ph.D. explores how Cornell measures student distress, flourishing and key well-being indicators through the Student Well ...

The onset of COVID-19 has turned higher education (like the rest of the world) upside down, forcing colleges, their staffs and their students to adapt on the fly. Sometimes that entails doing many ...

For many years as a teacher, like countless others in the profession, I have experienced a familiar, even reassuring, pattern to the end of the semester. After a last-minute review session -- during ...

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 ...