Amid the rising tide of grade inflation, some faculty members have voiced concerns that student course evaluations may incentivize professors in the tenure and promotion process to award higher grades ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Motivating students to fill out course evaluations is not the primary concern at some universities ...

A recent story on the problem of how teaching is evaluated struck a chord with many in higher education. As our reporting showed, student course evaluations — which are known to be flawed measures — ...

Greg Samanez-Larkin, chair of the committee on assessments and Jack H. Neely, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, presented a report on student course evaluations, which were recently ...

From helping instructors improve their courses to guiding future students' course selections, the Case Western Reserve University course evaluation process represents a critical point in the semester.

For the first time, students will now complete end-of-the-semester course evaluations on the internet during their own time, rather than in class on paper. The aim of moving course evaluations online ...

(Hat-tip to Kim Weeden for raising the question on Twitter.) Why do colleges still have students do course evaluations? Is it because administrators are knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who don’t know ...

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 ...

A couple of weeks after the end of my first semester of teaching as the instructor of record, I received “the packet” in my campus mailbox — an interoffice envelope stuffed with course evaluations ...

Hope College has always had effective, energizing instruction as one main priority. It is this spirit that guides the desire to continuously develop the instructional skills of faculty and academic ...

In the final weeks of each semester, Tufts students expect a familiar email in their inboxes, urgently inviting them to click on a link and complete their course evaluations. In return for completing ...