Download or read book Student Ratings of Instruction written by Nira Hativa and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Designed for faculty and academic administrators to answer concerns and reservations about student ratings of insrtuction. The book presents visual intuitive illustrations of controversial issues"--Cover.
Download or read book Student Ratings of Instruction written by Nira Hativa and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student evaluation of teaching (SET), or teacher evaluation by students in higher education, titled here student ratings of instruction (SRI), is a most frequently researched and discussed issues in American educational literature. This book is designed for faculty members of all types of higher education institutions and all academic domains who are frustrated, angered, or distrustful of their students' ratings, and would appreciate answers to their concerns. The book may also be of help to academic administrators—in answering faculty complaints about and objections to student ratings.The interpretation of student ratings as a measure of teaching effectiveness is very controversial. Every year, many new publications claim to “prove” that SRIs are unreliable and invalid, leading faculty and administrators to question the appropriateness of using student ratings to guide personnel decisions. This book presents dozens of concerns, beliefs, and misconceptions, and 'myths' regarding potential biasing factors affecting SRIs that have been reported over the years, and that seem to persist and continue spreading. It also presents highly established research evidence refuting these misconceptions and beliefs. This evidence reveals that SRIs soundly correlate with student learning, with the conceptual structure of effective teaching, and with other criterion measures of effective instruction (i.e. alumni, peer, expert, observer, and self ratings). It also shows that factors controllable by the instructor but unrelated to effective teaching (e.g., course difficulty/workload, grades) as well as factors uncontrollable by the instructor (e.g., class size, discipline) do not bias SRI results. Altogether, the book presents impressive research evidence for the reliability and validity of SRI results.One of the most popular but potentially damaging faculty beliefs is that they can “bribe” students and buy higher ratings by entertaining students, and by reducing difficulty/workload and giving undeserved high grades. Faculty holding this belief may be tempted to manipulate these factors, e.g., to grade higher and to lower the level of difficulty/workload, in order to receive higher ratings from students. These counterproductive behaviors may lead to watering-down the course material and to a decline in the work students invest in their courses, adversely affecting their learning and eventually resulting in and the “dumbing down” of college education. This book presents convincing research evidence that these manipulative behaviors are mostly ineffective in raising teacher ratings.The book incorporates the scholarship of a wide range of researchers and practitioners, including the author's own accumulated knowledge and experience throughout over 30 years of research and practice in this domain. Because this book is designed for administrators and faculty members of a wide spectrum of institutions and academic domains, the content is designed to be simple and intuitive, with no professional jargon or knowledge, so as to make reading easy and smooth for the entire range of target readers. The book also provides simple illustrations of many of the main issues involved, based on studies implemented by the author and often demonstrated through tables and graphs. This book complements another book by the same author that is being published concurrently: Student Ratings of Instruction: A Practical Approach to Designing, Operating, and Reporting. Nonetheless, it can be read independently of the other book. The two books jointly integrate and summarize the conclusions of the major relevant research and publications on student ratings to date, and constitute a reasonably comprehensive overview of the main theoretical and practical issues related to SRIs in higher education.
Download or read book Student Ratings of Instruction Recognizing Effective Teaching written by Nira Hativa and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Designed for faculty and academic administrators to answer concerns and reservations about student ratings of instruction. The book presents visual intuitive illustrations of controversial issues"--Couv.
Download or read book Student Ratings of Instruction a Practical Approach to Designing Operating and Reporting written by Nira Hativa and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Designed for academic administrators--deans, heads of schools, and department chairs; for faculty and faculty developers; and for SRI system designers and operators. The book contributes to the reliability and validity of the design, operation, interpretation, and decisions related to SRI systems"--Cover.
Download or read book Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-12-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic, academic, and social forces are causing undergraduate schools to start a fresh examination of teaching effectiveness. Administrators face the complex task of developing equitable, predictable ways to evaluate, encourage, and reward good teaching in science, math, engineering, and technology. Evaluating, and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics offers a vision for systematic evaluation of teaching practices and academic programs, with recommendations to the various stakeholders in higher education about how to achieve change. What is good undergraduate teaching? This book discusses how to evaluate undergraduate teaching of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology and what characterizes effective teaching in these fields. Why has it been difficult for colleges and universities to address the question of teaching effectiveness? The committee explores the implications of differences between the research and teaching cultures-and how practices in rewarding researchers could be transferred to the teaching enterprise. How should administrators approach the evaluation of individual faculty members? And how should evaluation results be used? The committee discusses methodologies, offers practical guidelines, and points out pitfalls. Evaluating, and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics provides a blueprint for institutions ready to build effective evaluation programs for teaching in science fields.
Download or read book Student Ratings of Instruction written by Michael Theall and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Student Ratings of Instruction written by Nira Hativa and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student ratings of instruction (SRI) is one of the most controversial teaching-related issues in institutions of higher education. Faculty and administrators have engaged in extensive debates on countless concerns, beliefs, myths, reservations, and misconceptions regarding potential biasing factors affecting SRI. Despite the solid research evidence countering most faculty misconceptions and beliefs, they continue to persist and spread. Every year, many new publications claim to prove that SRIs are unreliable and invalid, leading faculty and administrators to question student ratings' overall reliability and validity, and the appropriateness of using them to guide personnel decisions.For these reasons, in the past few decades, SRI has been one of the most frequently researched and discussed issues in American educational literature. This book incorporates findings and conclusions from the extensive research and publications on student ratings to date. It presents an array of concerns, beliefs, misconceptions, and myths regarding potential biasing factors affecting SRIs that have been reported over the years, as well as solidly established research evidence refuting them.This book is designed for academic faculty members who are frustrated, disappointed, angered, or distrustful of their ratings by their students. It is designed to respond to their concerns, to inform them regarding proper SRI interpretations, and to guide them in applying SRI results to improve their instruction and ratings. It also serves academic administrators-deans, heads of schools, and department chairs-who are involved in personnel decision-making, to help them base their decisions on reliable and valid interpretations of student rating results, and to ground them with proper knowledge for responding to faculty members' complaints about, and objections to, student ratings. Yet another audience of this book is faculty in teaching centers, who are also frequently faced with academic faculty frustrations, anger, and mistrust of SRI.To facilitate reading, the issues are presented succinctly and simply, and are usually enhanced by research-grounded tables and graphics, providing simple illustrations of many of the issues involved, to render them intuitive and to enhance comprehension.The book incorporates the scholarship of a wide range of researchers and practitioners, including the author's own accumulated knowledge and experience throughout over 30 years of research and practice in this domain. It provides a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical and practical issues related to SRIs in higher education. The book is an enhanced and updated version of the book: Hativa (2014), Student Ratings of Instruction: Recognizing Effective Teaching, 2nd Edition, and it complements another book: Hativa (2014), Student Ratings of Instruction: A Practical Approach to Designing, Operating, and Reporting, 2nd Edition. Nonetheless, it can be read independently of the latter book. The two books jointly constitute a thorough overview of the main theoretical and practical issues related to SRIs in higher education.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Critique of Student Evaluation of Teaching written by Dennis E. Clayson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking volume offers comprehensive analysis of contemporary research and literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in Higher Education. In evaluating data from fields including education, psychology, engineering, science, and business, this volume critically engages with the assumption that SET is a reliable and valid measure of effective teaching. Clayson navigates a range of cultural, social, and era-related factors including gender, grades, personality, student honesty, and halo effects to consider how these may impact on the accuracy and impartiality of student evaluations. Ultimately, he posits a “popularity hypothesis”, asserting that above all, SET measures instructor likability. While controversial, the hypothesis powerfully and persuasively draws on extensive and divergent literature to offer new and salient insights regarding the growing and potentially misleading phenomenon of SET. This topical and transdisciplinary book will be of great interest to researchers, faculty, and administrators in the fields of higher education management, administration, teaching and learning.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Critique of Student Evaluation of Teaching written by Dennis E. Clayson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking volume offers comprehensive analysis of contemporary research and literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in Higher Education. In evaluating data from fields including education, psychology, engineering, science, and business, this volume critically engages with the assumption that SET is a reliable and valid measure of effective teaching. Clayson navigates a range of cultural, social, and era-related factors including gender, grades, personality, student honesty, and halo effects to consider how these may impact on the accuracy and impartiality of student evaluations. Ultimately, he posits a “popularity hypothesis”, asserting that above all, SET measures instructor likability. While controversial, the hypothesis powerfully and persuasively draws on extensive and divergent literature to offer new and salient insights regarding the growing and potentially misleading phenomenon of SET. This topical and transdisciplinary book will be of great interest to researchers, faculty, and administrators in the fields of higher education management, administration, teaching and learning.
Download or read book Effective Teaching in Higher Education written by Raymond P. Perry and published by Agathon Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assists academic staff to develop their effectiveness as teachers and improve their students' learning by giving practical guidelines and suggestions for teaching and a series of activities.
Download or read book The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument 2013 Edition written by Charlotte Danielson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The framework for teaching document is an evolving instrument, but the core concepts and architecture (domains, components, and elements) have remained the same.Major concepts of the Common Core State Standards are included. For example, deep conceptual understanding, the importance of student intellectual engagement, and the precise use of language have always been at the foundation of the Framework for Teaching, but are more clearly articulated in this edition.The language has been tightened to increase ease of use and accuracy in assessment.Many of the enhancements to the Framework are located in the possible examples, rather than in the rubric language or critical attributes for each level of performance.
Download or read book Explicit Instruction written by Anita L. Archer and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explicit instruction is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented--and has been shown to promote achievement for all students. This highly practical and accessible resource gives special and general education teachers the tools to implement explicit instruction in any grade level or content area. The authors are leading experts who provide clear guidelines for identifying key concepts, skills, and routines to teach; designing and delivering effective lessons; and giving students opportunities to practice and master new material. Sample lesson plans, lively examples, and reproducible checklists and teacher worksheets enhance the utility of the volume. Purchasers can also download and print the reproducible materials for repeated use. Video clips demonstrating the approach in real classrooms are available at the authors' website: www.explicitinstruction.org. See also related DVDs from Anita Archer: Golden Principles of Explicit Instruction; Active Participation: Getting Them All Engaged, Elementary Level; and Active Participation: Getting Them All Engaged, Secondary Level
Download or read book The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education An Evidence Based Perspective written by Raymond P. Perry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21st Century is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. This book brings together pre-eminent scholars to critically assess teaching and learning issues that cut across most disciplines. Systematically explored throughout the book is the avowed linkage between classroom teaching and motivation, learning, and performance outcomes in students.
Download or read book Rating College Teaching written by Sidney E. Benton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Student Ratings and Criteria for Effective Teaching written by Susan E. Embretson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TALIS Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments First Results from TALIS written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first report from the OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). It provides quantitative, policy-relevant information on the teaching and learning environment in schools in 23 countries.
Download or read book How Humans Learn written by Joshua Eyler and published by Teaching and Learning in Highe. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even on good days, teaching is a challenging profession. One way to make the job of college instructors easier, however, is to know more about the ways students learn. How Humans Learn aims to do just that by peering behind the curtain and surveying research in fields as diverse as developmental psychology, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience for insight into the science behind learning. The result is a story that ranges from investigations of the evolutionary record to studies of infants discovering the world for the first time, and from a look into how our brains respond to fear to a reckoning with the importance of gestures and language. Joshua R. Eyler identifies five broad themes running through recent scientific inquiry--curiosity, sociality, emotion, authenticity, and failure--devoting a chapter to each and providing practical takeaways for busy teachers. He also interviews and observes college instructors across the country, placing theoretical insight in dialogue with classroom experience.
