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+$!

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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

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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?

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Thank you

Anne-Mart Olsen