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EVALUATION OF TEACHING
By ANNE OLSEN
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Food for thought
• Why do we teach? • How do we know we are teaching
well? • Is our students’ success our success?
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Why evaluate?
Teaching and Learning Policy:
“Encourage and enable staff and students to take co-responsibility for the quality of the learning experience provided.”
And the purpose?
To create and sustain a responsive learning environment conducive to excellence in teaching and learning and fostering holistic student success
It’s a process
Evaluating one’s teaching encourage academics to engage in a process which has become known as reflective practice, which entails using one’s experience as an opportunity to consider both one’s teaching philosophy and practice
Hammersley-Fletcher, L & Orsmond, P. (2005), “Reflecting on reflective practices within peer observation. In. Studies in Higher Education
Vol 3, No. 2, April 2005 pp. 213-224
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What does the research say?
• a prerequisite to improving teaching is having an effective way to evaluate it
• a valid evaluation of teaching is based on a portfolio containing assessment data from multiple sources – ratings from students– peers – administrators– self-ratings
Brent, R & Felder, M. (2004) A Protocol for Peer Review of Teaching. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Available online: http://www.lmu.edu/Assets/Centers+$!
2b+Institutes/Center+for+Teaching+Excellence/Brent+Felder+Protocol.pdf
reflect on every aspect of teaching, including course
design, classroom instruction, assessment of
learning, advising and mentoring
A successful evaluation:
• Valid• Reliable • Indicates directions and actions for
improvement
Which teaching practices are more effective than others in a specific context?
• Responsibility for each individual academic
The benefits?
• Improves the teaching and learning experiences for students and academics
• Engagement in a scholarly review of teaching• Promotes professional development through professional
conversations• Provides the individual student with an opportunity to offer constructive
criticism to his/her lecturer• Provides the student body with a voice in developing and maintaining
an effective lecturing and curriculum• Provides the individual academic with data that may be used in
support of his/her considerations for promotion• Provides data to benchmark teaching and learning quality within and
beyond the NMMU;• Provides data that may assist in making curricula decisions• Provide evidence that academics can use as indicators of teaching
performance
Brookfield’s 4 lenseshttp://edtechsally.blogspot.com/2011/05/message-in-online-bottle.html
Some Sources of Data for Evaluating
Teaching and Courses:
• Self-Reflection• Students• Colleagues• Literature
Self-evaluation
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Student feedback
• Student feedback questionnaire
• Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID)
• 1 minute papers
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Valuable but subjective
Inspiring
I can ask questions in
class
Makes me want to work bymyself
Peer / teaching observation
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It is good practice for peer evaluation to be a planned and structured process, involving these separate stages:
Literature
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Which one?• Why only pick one?
• Consider:– obtaining student feedback – conducting a SGID and other focus
group/interviewing techniques – setting up a peer review – reqiesting teaching observations– finding literature on teaching and learning– deciding how to respond to feedback you
have received building a portfolio
Questions?
http://theorganisedhousewife.com.au/craft/teacher-appreciation-gifts-teacher-quote-in-frame/
Thank you
Anne-Mart Olsen