When I began my teaching career two decades ago as an adjunct instructor, I cared a lot about my end-of-course student evaluations—but quite frankly—they mostly served as a means to job security. Over ...

W hen Phoebe Young began working at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an assistant professor of history in 2009, her annual teaching reviews were fairly perfunctory. Everyone knew, she says, ...

Student evaluations of teaching, or SETs, can provide a better understanding of what is working and what isn’t in classrooms. But gaining a “meaningful” understanding necessitates separating the ...

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 American Sociological Association released on Monday a statement laying out the problems with student evaluations of teaching and urging colleges not to over-rely on them. “Student feedback,” says ...

Questioning what student evaluations of teaching actually measure, various institutions have already said they won't use them in high-stakes personnel decisions or as the primary measure of teaching ...

In recent years many universities switched from paper- to online-based student evaluation of teaching (SET) without knowing the consequences for data quality. Based on a series of three consecutive ...

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 ...

The new question-of-the-week is: Should teachers encourage student evaluations of their classes and their teaching? If not, why not? If so, what are the best ways to do it? In Part One, we heard from ...

Kathy is a lecturer within the First Year College at Victoria University. Dianne Hall is employed by Victoria University. She has recieved funding from the Australian Research Council. Kate Kelly and ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Part Two ‘s contributors were Dr. PJ Caposey, Kate Wolfe Maxlow, Karen Sanzo, Rachael Williams, Andrea ...