Student evaluation of teaching (SET) is widely used to measure the quality of teaching, and often controversially, for teacher recruitment, promotion and tenure. Institution-led SET is largely ...

The end of every Duke semester follows a familiar pattern: exams, papers and a flood of emails urging students to complete course evaluations. Course evaluations aim to “help instructors identify ...

Men are “scientific,” women are “lovely” and underrepresented minorites are “pleasant” and “nice.” If those sound like stereotypes, they are. But they’re also words commonly used to evaluate medical ...

Pinterest boasts more than 1,000 ideas about how students can self-evaluate their own learning. My Google search on the same topic offered six million results. Clearly, the resources are plentiful.

I n the fall of 2019, while compiling my files for promotion, I spent some time looking over my teaching evaluations from the previous three years. I was a bit shook. One student complained that I ...

This paper presents a complex interactional model of classroom factors that contribute to the development of students' self-evaluations. This model integrates previously investigated factors, suggests ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

Determining teachers’ impact on test scores isn’t enough to measure effectiveness—policymakers must also look at how teachers affect their students’ behavior, a new study suggests. In fact, teachers’ ...

American psychologist Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs speaks of self-actualisation as the ultimate level of motivation. He identified five needs: physiological (food, clothing), safety (job ...

Although autumn seems a bit delayed in parts of the US, the semester calendar is still marching on. The Midterms are here (no, not those midterm elections, rather, the midterms that happen on campus).