Two More Ways To Evaluate Teaching Performance

The search continues for effective ways to evaluate college teaching. Still, the most prevalent assessment tool is the student evaluation. The authors examined two additional tools to determine whether they might provide administrators with useful supplementary information for formative and summative evaluations. One is a student assessment of their learning using the course learning objectives, while the other looks at the number of students who drop the course. These tools still use students in the assessment process, but one tries to disassociate learning assessment from instructor personality assessment, and the other is based on student action (dropping the course) and not on student opinion. The investigation revealed that the course learning assessment can be a useful tool for evaluating teaching, but the student drop rate is not.