A continuing decline in an institution's response rates for student evaluations of teaching (SET) raised faculty concerns about non-response bias in summary statistics. In response, this institution's SET stakeholders partnered with a Marketing Methods class section to create strategies for increasing response rates. The project was also an…

Higher education institutions task their faculty with student learning and expect them to undergo an extensive faculty evaluation process. One component of the evaluation process is to gather data on faculty teaching effectiveness through student course evaluations. Universities use course evaluation data in conjunction with other gathered data to…

Background: Previous research examined the relationship between teaching characteristics and constructs of attitudes towards mathematics (ATM) from the student perspective in isolation. Aims: This study aims to survey the relationship between instructional clarity and classroom management and ATM constructs (i.e., mathematics self-concept,…

Could co-teaching be a mechanism to support the adoption of evidence-based teaching strategies? Co-teaching has been proposed as a lever for fostering pedagogical change and has key attributes of a successful change strategy, but does research indicate co-teaching effectively shifts instructional practices? Based on our review of the emerging…

Through co-occurrence analysis of 1139 documents (1964-2018) we identified discussions about the implementation of student teaching evaluation (SET). We found that: (1) Attention to SET originated in the US in the 1970s, spreading to German-speaking countries in the mid-1990s and continuing in China and Latin America in the early 2000s. (2) SET is…

Recent trends in "educational technology" have led to emergence of methods such as teaching analytics (TA) in understanding and management of the teaching-learning processes. Didactically, "teaching analytics" is one of the promising and emerging methods within the Education domain that have proved to be useful, towards…

In response to the paucity of clinical placements available in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, alternate options for prelicensure students were necessary in order for them to complete the fieldwork required for graduation. In response, Curtin University replaced a faculty-led fully-simulated placement with a peer-assisted learning model. This…

The article is a critical reflection on a study conducted to evaluate the student-perceived value of instructor presence techniques. The study utilized the author-created Instructor Presence Technique Value Scale (IPTVS) in attempts to measure variations in the value of differing instructor presence techniques across communication media. The…

This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to evaluate teaching effectiveness and to motivate or demotivate faculty tenure and promotion decisions. It shows that the non-deterministic and qualitative nature of the SETs controverts their analysis and interpretation. It also…

Global learning and global citizenship education (GCE) continue to be integrated as co-curricular and curricular components in US higher education. Many institutions have linked their mission and values statements to global learning. However, their efforts fail to reflect a single shared understanding or philosophy of global learning or GCE. While…

This research examines relationships between teaching tags and teaching evaluations. The paper constitutes one in a series of papers by the same author that examines Ratemyprofessors.com data. Since 2014, Ratemyprofessors' reviewers can assign tags that provide detailed comments about the class and professor. The analysis here examines how these…

The student evaluation of teaching (SET) tool is widely used to measure student satisfaction in institutions of higher education. A SET typically includes several criteria, which are assigned equal weights. The motivation for this research is to examine student and lecturer perceptions and the behaviour of the students (i.e. ratings given by them…

In "Grading the College," Scott M. Gelber offers a comprehensive history of evaluating teaching and learning in higher education. He complicates the conventional narrative that portrays evaluation as a newfangled assault on the integrity of higher education while acknowledging that there are many compelling reasons to oppose those…

Much is made of students generally rating assessment lower than other aspects of their educational experience. It is frequently cited in research literature as evidence for a general crisis in assessment, and it strongly influences institutional enhancement efforts and media coverage of student feedback. Focusing on the UK's National Student…

Sustainable lecturer performance mapping needed a valid evaluation model. The absence of such a model brings about lecturer performance evaluation which was neither systematic nor sustainable. The study aimed to develop a valid and reliable model of lecturer performance evaluation. This research was a development research model. The model…