Teaching – Student and Peer Evaluation of Teaching

Topic: Student and peer evaluation of teaching

Articles:

• • • • • • • • We Don’t Trust Course Evaluations, but Are Peer Observations of Teaching Much Better

• • • • • • • • Most institutions say they value teaching but how they assess it tells a different story

• • • • • • • • Classroom Assessment: “Mid-Term” Feedback to Enhance Student Learning by Peter Frederick, Wabash College and Heritage University, 2008

• • • • • • • • Peer Review: Reflections on Visiting Colleagues’ Classes by Peter Frederick, Wabash College Revised, 2008

• • • • • • • • Draft_The Uses and Abuses of student “Evaluation Forms” by Peter Frederick Wabash College – May 2000 (revised slightly in Feb., 2021

Resources mentioned during the meeting:

• • • • • • • • STEM faculty peer observation: COPUS instrument (measure here). 

• • • • • • • • SaLT program from Bryn Mawr

• • • • • • • • From Carleton College: Resources for students: providing constructive feedback on courses LTC resource for students: providing constructive feedback on courses

• • • • • • • • Richmond, A. S., Boysen, G. A., Gurung, R. A. R., Tazeau, Y. N., Meyers, S. A., & Sciutto, M. J. (2014). Aspirational model teaching criteria for psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 41(4), 281–295. 

• • • • • • • • Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of teaching

• • • • • • • • From the University of Arizona: In an effort to limit the intrusion of student bias, the university had stopped asking students about their instructors and starting asking them about their experiences.