Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

The development of teacher evaluation systems is generating a lot of controversy around the country. Teachers in some states are very fearful of the effect these new systems might have on how they do ...

This page offers clarification and updates to A&S personnel policies. A&S fulfills CU’s statutory mission to “recognize the exceptional opportunities associated with its role as a research university, ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

The following provide clarifications and updates to the existing policies around teaching evaluation in the College of Arts and Science. It is the result of the Dean’s Taskforce report and builds on ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that has not deposited records to the Records Office. Student ratings have long been used by many institutions of higher education as a primary form of ...

From learner-centered syllabi to multi-source feedback and innovative strategies like gamification, higher education is reimagining how to evaluate and support effective teaching. Research shows that ...

When economics faculty members at James Madison University received their annual evaluations this summer, some of them were taken aback. Had their teaching gotten much worse all of a sudden? Six ...

Excellence in teaching is demonstrated both in the classroom and beyond in any and all work that you do that is related to teaching and learning. Leadership in activities such as curriculum ...

Some colleges are changing how they collect and consider student ratings of instructors, citing the COVID-19-driven move online. Might that undermine a widely criticized (and used) tool? The onset of ...

Colleges and universities all over the United States are striding through the fall term. Some are already at midterms, six weeks in. Others have just started within the last week. Millions of students ...