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Students as Evaluators of their Learning Experience
Author(s) -
Rosenberg Martina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2020.34.s1.00367
Subject(s) - excellence , set (abstract data type) , context (archaeology) , session (web analytics) , psychology , higher education , pedagogy , mathematics education , medical education , public relations , political science , computer science , medicine , world wide web , law , programming language , paleontology , biology
Student evaluations of teaching (SET) have been an evergreen topic of passionate debates in higher education. Concerns have been raised about use student feedback in the form of SETs for administrative purposes. Nevertheless, they remain a reality at most institutions and are frequently the sole or key metric on which teaching excellence is evaluated. This session will provide an overview of national trends with the struggle to define teaching excellence in context and the current discussion on what aspects of the teaching and learning can be evaluated with different SET formats. Viewed through the lens of academic development, participants will examine why SETs are so pervasive, how to mitigate the emotional charge that is a barrier to individual growth of instructors within their professional setting, and how students can act as productive partners in institutional learning.