Four years ago, I wrote a series of pieces about how student evaluations did not yield meaningful data. Worse, the data they did yield were used to disproportionately attack women and minorities. This ...

A new commentary proposes a six-step strategy for faculty to systematically analyze biased but ubiquitous student evaluations ...

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 ...

Amid the rising tide of grade inflation, some faculty members have voiced concerns that student course evaluations may incentivize professors in the tenure and promotion process to award higher grades ...

Formal Evaluation by the Site director: Site directors serve as the main liaison between Drexel University and the school where the teacher candidate is placed. The site director is expected to visit ...

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Student evaluations were based upon what appeared to be a reasonable premise: feedback from students provides a window into the strengths and weaknesses of a professor’s approach to education. To a ...

Despite earning more than half of all doctoral degrees conferred in the U.S., women are significantly underrepresented in faculty positions at colleges and universities. This is particularly true in ...

Student evaluations of teaching, or SETs, can provide a better understanding of what is working and what isn’t in classrooms. But gaining a “meaningful” understanding necessitates separating the ...

A trio of researchers from the University of Cincinnati, the University of Colorado Boulder and Clemson University has found that college students giving evaluations of their professors in upper-level ...

Faculty use their expertise and academic judgment when conducting student evaluations. Specifically, faculty broadly evaluate students’ academic standing, which encompasses minimal levels of ...

On behalf of the Faculty Personnel Committee, I ask you to join with a number of current students and recent graduates to provide us a candid and confidential evaluation of the teaching of the faculty ...