When I began my teaching career two decades ago as an adjunct instructor, I cared a lot about my end-of-course student evaluations—but quite frankly—they mostly served as a means to job security. Over ...

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 ...

"The idea of student evaluations as an assessment tool to help instructors figure out how well they are teaching has become a hot topic on most campuses," relates Terry Favero, an assistant professor ...

It’s that time of year when faculty exhilaration at the arrival of summer break is tempered only by a sense of dread over what we’ll find in our latest batch of course evaluations. Even the most ...