Aligning Practice to Policies: Changing the Culture to Recognize and Reward Teaching at Research Universities.

ABSTRACT: Recent calls for improvement in undergraduate education within STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines are hampered by the methods used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Faculty members at research universities are commonly assessed and promoted mainly on the basis of research success. To improve the quality of undergraduate teaching across all disciplines, not only STEM fields, requires creating an environment wherein continuous improvement of teaching is valued, assessed, and rewarded at various stages of a faculty member's career. This requires consistent application of policies that reflect well-established best practices for evaluating teaching at the department, college, and university levels. Evidence shows most teaching evaluation practices do not ref

SUBMITTER: Dennin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5749974 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature