Sean Decatur is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College. Updated September 26, 2012, 3:25 PM As a faculty member, I have ...

Stanley Fish bemoans the use of student evaluations -- which can seem capricious at best and misleading at worst -- as a means of evaluating teaching performance (“Who’s in Charge Here?,” Careers, ...

The saddest and most profound transformation I have witnessed nationwide in my many decades in higher education is professors’ increasing fear of college students. This fear, borne of the increasing ...

The teaching evaluation system consists of three components: student evaluation, peer or colleague evaluation, and self-evaluation. The evaluation of teaching provides information that instructional ...

After more years in academe than I care to admit, holding positions from faculty member to department chair to dean and even interim provost for a long year and a half, I have witnessed more faculty ...

Teaching is a bottomless well of unrealized potential – this is what makes it so interesting – but overall, I’m pleased with this semester’s results. There’s a handful of things I’m Monday-morning ...

Using an online survey, Santa Clara University Course Evaluations are conducted at the end of each quarter (Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer sessions). Faculty members receive a report for each class ...

Two recent papers argue that using student surveys to evaluate professors is fundamentally flawed. At Denny's, diners are asked to fill out comment cards. How was your meal? Were you satisfied with ...

At the end of each semester, college students have a chance to give feedback to their professors in the form of student evaluations, basically “rating” them. On the whole, professors are often not ...

Aaahh. It’s evaluation season. Time for the tables to be turned on you. Yes, you, the professor. You thought you were being so clever by trying to institute some kind of an email policy: Telling your ...

It’s student evaluation time again—and I should be the last professor in the world to complain. With slight exceptions for “caring too much” and courses that meet “too early” (9:10 a.m.), my ...

Sean Decatur is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College. Updated September 26, 2012, 3:25 PM As a faculty member, I have ...