How surprising. As reported in InsideHigherEd here: 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 “myths and realities” surrounding these evaluations, says a new report on the topic. That, in turn,…
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A new PNAS paper concludes: … Comparing passive lectures with active learning using a randomized experimental approach and identical course materials, we find that students in the active classroom learn more, but they feel like they learn less. We show that this negative correlation is caused in part by the…
That’s the news from the Chronicle of Higher Ed today here by Kristin Doerer (gated if off campus, some clips below) complete with a photo of some squirrelly looking economist: Well, economists do have some experience with the misuse of metrics. From the article: Emily Wu and Kenneth Ancell, two students…
This Wed, 9-10 in the library browsing room, and 3:20-3:50 at the Senate in the EMU Crater Lake room. From Around the O: Ginger Clark, assistant vice provost for academic and faculty affairs at the University of Southern California, will discuss improving teaching evaluation methods during a campus appearance Nov.…
Daily Emerald reporter Hannah Kanik has the story here: The university faculty senate is working to create less biased and more informative course evaluations through a targeted task force and increased student input. Last May, the University senate discovered sexist and racist correlations in the results of student course evaluations.…
Just a reminder to self, interesting IHE story here.