What are your experiences with teaching evaluations? Do you find ...

We wrote an article about how teaching evaluations are broken, in part due to not having a good way to accurately measure what effective teaching looks like.

Teaching Evaluations and Reflections on Teaching - Kelly L. Rulison

"Kelly is AWESOME! No one can top her. Sometimes I truly would have been lost without her help and guidance. She is so dedicated to the class and students. She ...

Teacher evaluation lessons - Oppenheim Education Consultants

In this case, despite the teacher's tension about being evaluated, she taught an excellent lesson to an upper-elementary grade class. It was ...

Student Teaching Evaluations are Effective, but Not in the Way You ...

For one thing, student evaluations encourage younger instructors whose career development depends on them to “teach to the evaluation”, ...

What do polarized student evaluation results say about my teaching?

Honestly, this teaching experience has been so tiring that I am seriously thinking teaching is not for me. My colleagues tell me it will get ...

How Is Your Teaching Evaluated? - Daily Nous

That is, we read the instructions and pass out the evaluation forms. We don't *collect* the responses, so it's not *maximally* bad. But it's ...

Talking to Your Students About Course Evaluations - Medium

I don't have a lot of time to write a long essay about how and why we should talk to our students about student evaluations of teaching, but ...

As a professor, do or did you dread your teaching evaluations? As in ...

It sucks. But you got to accept the fact that no matter what a teacher/professor does, they will not be able to please everyone. The evaluations ...

Reflections on Student Evaluations - Amy Pistone

The first is a time that I struggled as an instructor and needed to find ways to improve my teaching, whereas the second (saving the best for last!) is a ...

The truth behind course evaluations - Lindenlink

Professors who got good reviews tended to have students who got good grades on their tests, but instructors with students who did well in the ...

From Boardroom to Classroom: Unpacking My Teaching Evaluation

For educators, irrespective of our backgrounds, teaching evaluations are much more than just feedback. They act as mirrors, ...

Avoiding bad teaching evaluations: Tricks of the trade

Student evaluations are the main method used to evaluate our teaching. These evaluations are, at best, an imperfect measuring tool.

Student evaluations of college professors are biased and worthless.

A recent comprehensive study, for example, showed that professors get good evaluations by teaching to the test and being entertaining. Student ...

50 Teacher Feedback Examples With Meaningful Impact

Give timely feedback to allow teachers to reflect on their practices and make adjustments while the classroom experience is still fresh in their ...

What to expect from your first teaching assessments - University Affairs

The evaluations ultimately helped advance my teaching. It all comes down to the students being able to give constructive advice. Then it's up to the instructor ...

How to Deal With Negative Teaching Evaluations - Inside Higher Ed

Simply discussing with my students what is good, bad, and ugly and what we can change has made a difference in my evaluations, even when the ...

Consistently low teaching evaluations? - The Philosophers' Cocoon

I have been teaching for more than 10 years including those done as TA. Teaching eval is always something like below 3/5. It's not that I do not care.

Are Teacher Evaluations Useful? - Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Student evaluations can have good value if the results are compared over time to see if any trends develop. A teacher who gets poor evaluations ...

Navigating Negative Student Evaluations

I would venture to guess we have all been perplexed to learn that students significantly struggled with some aspects of the course but never said anything to us ...

Teacher Evaluation: WHY It Matters and HOW We Can Do Better

Student achievement can be, indeed, should be, an important source of feedback on the effectiveness of schools, administrators, and teachers. The challenge for ...