A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

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 ...

Teacher evaluation has, until recently, been a symbolic act largely without meaning or consequence. No longer. Race to the Top requirements call for performance-based pay. The Bill & Melinda Gates ...

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 ...

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 ...

Faculty visits to a teaching center, like the one where I work, fall into a predictable pattern: before the semester starts, some faculty members will need a refresher or first lesson on how to ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it.As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it should come as ...

What’s Happening With Course Evaluations? Students’ course evaluations have long been problematic. Then Covid-19 hit. No doubt, many professors don’t want to be judged harshly for teaching in a ...

Over the past few decades, colleges and universities have become increasingly corporatized, to the point that students are seen as consumers who are recruited through promises of a safe and wonderful ...