#TeachingTuesday: Student feedback and how to interpret it in order to improve teaching
Mirjam S. Glessmer,
Student feedback has become a fixture in higher education. But even though it is important to hear student voices when…
Student feedback has become a fixture in higher education. But even though it is important to hear student voices when…
Recently, I have been re-reading Michel Houellebecq’s 2015 novel Submission. It’s about a hedonistic literature professor who…
Title: Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of…
In den letzten Jahren ist eine beeindruckende Zahl wissenschaftlicher Studien zum Thema Karrierechancen von Frauen in der…
A carefully done study that held students and teachers constant shows that students learn more in active learning classes but…
Among the few replicable findings from research on higher education, one of the most notable is that student evaluations of…
Among the few replicable findings from research on higher education, one of the most notable is that student evaluations of…
Title: Will my student evaluations decrease if I adopt an active learning instructional strategy? Authors: Charles Henderson…
Research continues to document the underrepresentation of women in faculty positions in political science and in top journals.
Following up on last week's post, Students Rate Male Professors More Highly Than Female Professors: Daily Tar Heel, NC State…
By Jonathan…
Women academics face inherent biases in the profession that limit career progression and influence. Emily Beaulieu and Kathleen…
Academic research plays an important role in uncovering bias and helping to shape a more equal society. But academia also…
It’s taken an awfully long time to acknowledge that women know stuff … Graduates of the University of Toronto a century ago.With…
A series of studies across countries and disciplines in higher education confirm that student evaluations of teaching (SET) are…
I got my course reviews from last term. Its a big class (the entire first year medical class) and I give about 10 lectures and…
(Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)The teaching evaluation is something of a staple for end-of-term college life. In theory…
We are almost there! I imagine most of you reading this are beginning to see light at the end of tunnel that is Winter break.
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The plan made me feel dishonest and creepy, so it took me a long time to send my novel out under a man’s name. But each time I…
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In this essay, Nathan Palmer uses the Bruce Jenner interview to explore social statuses and categorization systems. On Friday…
During his April 1 on-air radio show, Rush Limbaugh cited a recent SocImages post titled, “Are Economics Majors Anti-Social?…
On International Women’s Day we celebrate our solidarity with women around the world — women who are engaged in many different…
This is a guest post by Courtney Gibbons, an assistant professor of mathematics at Hamilton College. You can see her teaching…
K-12 education has been convulsed for years by the idea that good teaching is a trait, a tacit justification for all the…
K-12 education has been convulsed for years by the idea that good teaching is a trait, a tacit justification for all the…
Some posts and articles worth…
The semester is just not finished until you have completed course/teaching evaluations. Most students probably see them as a…
A new study claiming to demonstrate bias in how college students evaluate female instructors has been making a lot of waves in…
Well, file this experiment in both the “cool” and “depressing” categories: What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student…
More Proof That People Basically Suck. One new study finds that white people get 12 percent more money than black people for…
By Roberta Attanasio, IEAM Blog Editor Back in 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) acknowledged that female…
Photo: North Carolina State…
A new study shows that college students in online courses give better evaluations to instructors they think are men – even when…