Sean Decatur is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College. Updated September 26, 2012, 3:25 PM As a faculty member, I have ...

Parents enroll their children in language immersion programs in order to give them the gift of knowing another language. They also expect that their children will do as well or better in learning the ...

Teaching is a bottomless well of unrealized potential – this is what makes it so interesting – but overall, I’m pleased with this semester’s results. There’s a handful of things I’m Monday-morning ...

Separating students’ knowledge from their handwriting can leave teachers feeling like they’re detectives sifting through ...

Stanley Fish bemoans the use of student evaluations -- which can seem capricious at best and misleading at worst -- as a means of evaluating teaching performance (“Who’s in Charge Here?,” Careers, ...

Not too long ago, researchers at a large Midwestern university arranged to have a speaker give the same lecture to 154 undergraduates enrolled in eight sections of a required course. Or almost the ...

For decades, faculty members and administrators have erected walls around the data collected from students’ course evaluations, concerned about how the fickle tastes of undergraduates might affect ...

On Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee will decide the fate of AB 5, a long overdue legislative proposal to reform California’s dysfunctional teacher evaluation system. Unless significant ...

Aaahh. It’s evaluation season. Time for the tables to be turned on you. Yes, you, the professor. You thought you were being so clever by trying to institute some kind of an email policy: Telling your ...

Formal Evaluation by the Site director: Site directors serve as the main liaison between Drexel University and the school where the teacher candidate is placed. The site director is expected to visit ...

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