An Analysis Of Fifteen Years Of The National Effective Teaching Institute

The National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) is a three-day teaching workshop that has been given annually since 1991 in conjunction with the Annual ASEE Conference. In the early spring of 2008, a web-based survey sent to 607 workshop alumni asked about the effects of the NETI on their teaching practices, their students’ and their own ratings of their teaching, their involvement in educational research and instructional development, and their attitudes regarding various aspects of teaching and learning. Valid responses were received from 319 of the survey recipients. This paper briefly reviews the history of the NETI, summarizes and analyzes the survey responses, and discusses their implications for engineering faculty development.