International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 2, Number 2, July 2008
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Thirteen Strategies to Measure College Teaching
Ron Berk (Stylus, 2006)
The evaluation of teaching is something that is done virtually
wherever teaching itself is done. At the college level, it factors into
annual evaluations, merit raises and promotion and tenure decisions.
At too many places, though, it is done in a shallow, haphazard fashion.
Why is this, when there is a large body of research about and standards
for the measurement of effective teaching? Very possibly, the existence
of those methods have not gotten to the people making decisions on how
teaching is evaluated at individual colleges – i.e. faculty in
disciplines other than that of educational measurement. Ron Berk’s
book, Thirteen Strategies to Measure College Teaching, aims at evangelizing
the rest of academia with the good news of how to do it right.
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Louis E. Keiner
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina, USA
lkeiner@coastal.edu
I am the director of Coastal Carolina University’s Center for Effective Teaching and Learning. In my current position I coordinate the University’s new faculty programs, teaching effectiveness programs and the faculty technology center. I am also an Associate Professor of Physics and Physical Oceanography; I teach both introductory Physics courses as well as upper level Physical Oceanography ones. My current research deals with the effectiveness of applying the results of Physics Education Research to related disciplines.