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CU Boulder Leads National Study Promoting Next-Gen Teaching Evaluations

Sept. 29, 2017

Professor Pei-San Tsai in the Department of Integrative Physiology, like many at CU Boulder, knows the limitations of current teaching assessment practices that tend to reward the number of classes and students taught, FCQ scores and student feedback. In short, they’re quantitative vs. qualitative and can have the unintended consequence...

The Center for STEM Learning's 9th Annual Symposium

Sept. 6, 2017

The Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado Boulder invites you to the 9th Annual Symposium on STEM Education! Celebrating excellence and commitment to STEM education, student engagement, and learning. This event is a celebration of CU Boulder’s internationally recognized STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) education initiatives...

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Reevaluating teacher evaluations in higher education

Jan. 22, 2020

For decades student evaluations have been the mainstay of attempts to measure the quality of teaching at colleges and universities across the US and beyond. Now, as part of a growing focus on teaching in higher education, and because of mounting evidence of student biases, those evaluations are increasingly in...

Colleges Are Getting Smarter About Student Evaluations. Here’s How.

Jan. 13, 2019

Emily Wu and Kenneth Ancell, two students at the University of Oregon, approached their honors research professor, Bill Harbaugh, a few years ago about studying the relationship between student evaluations and grade inflation. Harbaugh, a professor of economics, was enthusiastic. Wu and Ancell dived into the university’s extensive data on...

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Promoting Scholarly Evaluation of Teaching: Addressing the Third Rail of Academia

Aug. 13, 2018

Education is perhaps the fundamental form of investment societies or individuals can make in their own future welfare. It is a core enterprise of our research universities, and national discussions around improving the quality of higher education have been growing in voice and prominence. Yet evaluations of this key form...

AAU and RCSA Cottrell Scholars Call for Valuing Teaching Innovations and Improvements

July 13, 2017

More can be done to value and reward effective teaching at research universities according to a report released today by the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Cottrell Scholar program of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) - Aligning Practice to Policies: Changing the Culture to Recognize and...

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