Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness

What assessment below does not evaluate teaching effectiveness?

• Teaching Strategies

• Grade point average

• Methods used to evaluate student performance

• Student learning

When are teaching strategies effective?

• Students are actively engaged.

• They assist students to achieve course objectives.

• Provides opportunities for students to use prior knowledge in building new knowledge.

• All of the above.

(select all that apply)

What are different types of evaluation methods?

• Student Feedback

• Peer Review

• Informal observation

• Classroom Observation

What is an advantage of student feedback?

• Generalized for all programs

• Increased reliability

• Decreased validity

• Customized to the program

Who can provide a peer review?

• Close colleague who works in a different department.

• Another faculty member within the same discipline with expertise in the field.

• Another faculty member within the same discipline with expertise in a different field.

• A faculty member who is a mentor.

Disadvantage of utilizing formal measures of teaching effectiveness

• Context bound and unable to be generalized.

• Provides feedback to evaluation questions within a given curriculum.

• Timely to administer.

• Costly and time-consuming to obtain.

True of False

The validity of classroom observations are a reliable evaluation method to use.

• True

• False

True of False

Formalized external testing can evaluate student learning.

• True

• False

True of False

Validating whether teaching methods are effective there must be evidence that they are valid and reliable.

• True

• False