Evaluation of teaching effectiveness is considered a critical element in determining whether or not faculty members are retained at higher education institutions; academic milestones such as tenure and promotion often require documentation of the quality of faculty teaching. As methods of assessing teaching effectiveness evolve, concerns about the equity of alternative methods arise. This study...

Is high-quality teaching the only thing measured by student evaluations of teaching (STE)? What other factors partially explain them? Late in 2011, the Committee on the Comprehensive Evaluation of Teaching (CCET) commissioned Institutional Research (IR) to study various hypotheses about influences on ratings. This paper summarizes results of analyses that address questions posed by the CCET reg...

GRADUATE medical education is one of the core missions of academic medical centers, wherein medical specialists are responsible for teaching and supervising their future colleagues. However, being a medical specialist is no longer a sufficient qualification or proxy for competence in medical education aimed at training residents. This is particularly true given the modernization requirements fo...

In the January/February issue of Change, Carl Wieman argues, in “A Better Way to Evaluate Undergraduate Teaching,” the current methods of evaluating teaching effectiveness in higher education lack validity and do little to offer the means for improvement. He proposes an alternative based on an inventory of instructor selfreported teaching practices, which are suggested by education research to ...

This article describes gaming, an interactive teaching strategy that promotes active learning. An evaluation study conducted with home health care nurses tested the use of a game as a teaching tool. The study evaluated learning outcomes and learners' level of engagement and satisfaction with an educational game as a teaching method.

Background Clinical experience associated with the fear and anxiety of nursing students in the psychiatric unit. Mental health nursing instructors find it challenging to teach nursing students to deal with patients with mental disorders in an environment where they need to provide patient teaching and clinical decision-making based on evidence and new technology. Objective To measure the effe...

Textbooks play a very crucial role in the process of language teaching and learning. The present study carries out an evaluation of two series of ELT textbooks used for teaching English language in Iranian high schools since 1970 to 2010. For this purpose, Tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model (see Appendix) has been employed. The results suggest that one of the main factors for the student...

among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. the wealth of published material for english language teaching (elt) available in the mark...