Discusses underlying issues that affect all forms of teaching evaluation: determining criteria, making links between teaching methods and learning outcomes, and distinguishing between evaluation for self-improvement and evaluation for accountability. (EV)

Describes the history, goals, and applications of the teaching portfolio as an alternative teaching assessment. (EV)

This introduction to a special issue on using consultants to improve teaching in higher education considers the origins and rationale for instructional consulting, raises some questions about the conceptual underpinnings for consulting practice, examines who offers and who sells consultation, and urges training in consultation skills and greater…

This annotated resource guide to instructional consultation at the college level identifies 16 specific resources, organized into those that address consultation in general, sourcebooks on instructional consultation, and effectiveness of instructional consultation. Also listed are periodicals, series, and other references, as well as professional…

Academic reward systems are widely perceived to emphasize research over teaching, inhibiting instructional and curricular change. Despite much conversation about changing the reward system for faculty, there is reluctance to take action. Unless teaching is better rewarded, there is a danger that external agencies will introduce their own measures…

Of great importance in large class instruction is the need to ensure that students learn how to learn. Course organization and evaluation methods grow out of a recognition of the course's learning goals. (MLW)