At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those ...

Activities that engage students are fine, but we still need to be able to measure how much they’ve learned.

The saddest and most profound transformation I have witnessed nationwide in my many decades in higher education is professors’ increasing fear of college students. This fear, borne of the increasing ...

A couple of weeks after the end of my first semester of teaching as the instructor of record, I received “the packet” in my campus mailbox — an interoffice envelope stuffed with course evaluations ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Distance education has experienced soaring development over the last decade. With millions of students in higher education enrolling in ...

Your article, “Colleges Are Getting Smarter About Student Evaluation. Here’s How” (The Chronicle, January 13), may indicate that colleges and universities are paying more attention to the issue of ...

Correlations between student ratings of the same course taught by the same instructor on two different occasions (n = 341 pairs of courses) were high (mean r = .71), but were lower than the ...

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At the end of each semester, college students have a chance to give feedback to their professors in the form of student evaluations, basically “rating” them. On the whole, professors are often not ...

Sean Decatur is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College. Updated September 26, 2012, 3:25 PM As a faculty member, I have ...

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 ...

The Houston ISD Board of Managers approved Superintendent Mike Miles' annual evaluation, awarding him an unknown total bonus ...