"Measuring Student Learning to Document Faculty Teaching Effectiveness" by Linda B. Nilson

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2013

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2013) 32

doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0032.020

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Recent research has questioned the validity of student ratings as proxy measures for how much students learn, and this learning is a commonly accepted meaning of faculty teaching effectiveness. Student ratings capture student satisfaction more than anything else. Moreover, the overriding assessment criterion in accreditation and accountability-that applied to programs, schools, and institutions-is student learning, so it only makes sense to evaluate faculty by the same standard. This chapter explains and evaluates course-level measures of student learning based on data that are easy for facuity to collect and administrators to use.

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