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Tocco, Audrey J.; Mehrhoff, Lauren A.; Osborn, Haley M.; McCartin, Lyda F.; Jameson, Molly M. – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Pedagogical metacognition, or the reflective and reflexive actions associated with teaching practice, strengthens the planning, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of teaching in higher education faculty. Learning communities are optimal environments to foster this active teaching reflection. This study incorporated pedagogical metacognition…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Metacognition, Higher Education
Thomas M. Colclough; William J. Howitz; Daniel Mann; Katherine Kearns; Darren S. Hoffmann – To Improve the Academy, 2023
We share insights from a mixed methods study to describe the experience of educational developers participating in a community of practice (CoP). This CoP consisted of 19 leaders at eight institutions, serving collectively as facilitators of a hybrid, across-institutional, seven-week workshop series on course design for graduate students and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Development, College Faculty, Instructional Leadership
Brennan, Janie; Fernandez, Todd; Tranquillo, Joe – To Improve the Academy, 2022
The professionalization of disciplines often leads to formalization of disciplinary training. As professionalization occurs, informal training roles are typically supplanted as the normative method of training but can continue to exist in parallel with formal methods. As in other fields, the ongoing professionalization of faculty development has…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Professional Recognition, Informal Education, Faculty Development
Discomfort and Other Factors That Influence the Effectiveness of Graduate Student Peer Consultations
Pleiss, Mark W.; Dearborn, Krisztina Erzsebet – To Improve the Academy, 2021
The following study reports the findings of two surveys given to graduate teacher consultants (n = 30) and graduate student teachers (n = 59) who completed video-teacher consultations at a public, R1 university. The surveys assessed the overall effectiveness of peer consultation for both sides and identified the factors that influenced those…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Graduate Students, Peer Groups, Student Teachers
Mahavongtrakul, Matthew; Hooper, Ashley; Mann, Daniel; Sato, Brian – To Improve the Academy, 2021
The Association of American Colleges and Universities calls for improvements in teaching preparation in graduate programs as a transferable skill for future faculty. However, the amount of institutional and faculty support for these programs is limited. For the relatively few programs that exist, rarely do they have their outcomes assessed in a…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants
Lovett, Marsha; Hershock, Chad – To Improve the Academy, 2020
A prominent goal of colleges and universities today is to enact data-driven teaching and learning. Faculty clearly play a key role, and yet they tend to have limited time, a lack of training in assessment or education research, and few incentives for engaging in this work. We describe a framework designed to address the practical and cultural…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Data Analysis, Systems Approach, Lesson Plans
Signorini, Adriana; Abuan, Mariana; Panakkal, Gautam; Dorantes, Sandy – To Improve the Academy, 2020
The purpose of the student evaluations of teaching (SET) are to help instructors enhance the teaching and learning experience in their courses; however, student feedback can often be more unconstructive than useful because students are usually requested to evaluate instruction with little or no formal training. As a result, SET become missed…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Course Evaluation, Training, Scoring Rubrics