With many districts trying to tie teacher evaluations to standardized tests that are often neither valid nor secure (“Evaluation System Weighing Down Tennessee Teachers,” Oct. 19, 2011), it’s only a ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

When I began my teaching career two decades ago as an adjunct instructor, I cared a lot about my end-of-course student evaluations—but quite frankly—they mostly served as a means to job security. Over ...

Faculty visits to a teaching center, like the one where I work, fall into a predictable pattern: before the semester starts, some faculty members will need a refresher or first lesson on how to ...

Adjuncts live or die by our teaching evaluations. Some of us get let go, despite good evaluations, but that’s another story. Generally speaking, we are hired to teach -- period. And if we don’t teach ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it. As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it should come ...

SEATTLE -- Once-a-year evaluations aren't enough to help teachers improve, says a report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And school districts using infrequent classroom observations to decide ...

As legislators prepare to gavel out for the summer, one piece of pressing education business remains: Albany must finally reform the state’s broken teacher evaluation system and allow school ...

Teacher evaluation has, until recently, been a symbolic act largely without meaning or consequence. No longer. Race to the Top requirements call for performance-based pay. The Bill & Melinda Gates ...

In contrast to end-of-course evaluations, feedback can be used to make changes during current courses. Students report feeling empowered to help craft their educational experience. Questions can be ...

With increased public interest in school accountability, area school districts are trying to come up with ways to adjust their teacher evaluation plans to keep up with changing state laws. “I don’t ...

“Block is a conceited, sanctimonious, egotistical, close-minded, arrogant, and downright rude ideologue and left-wing propagandist … That she is on your payroll at the University of California, Irvine ...