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Comparing Direct versus Indirect Measures of the Pedagogical Effectiveness of Team Testing
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Bacon, Donald R. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2011
Direct measures (tests) of the pedagogical effectiveness of team testing and indirect measures (student surveys) of pedagogical effectiveness of team testing were collected in several sections of an undergraduate marketing course with varying levels of the use of team testing. The results indicate that although students perceived team testing to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Group Testing, Student Surveys, Instructional Effectiveness
An Inconvenient Identity: Paradox, Complexity, and Strategies in a Social Foundations Classroom
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Cao, Wei – Education and Urban Society, 2011
This article addresses the paradox and complexity of the interactions of the social-cultural context of my students and my identity, as a female Chinese junior professor in social foundations/diversity in my predominantly European American urban classroom. This article will describe the hidden dimensions of teaching diversity courses, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethnic Diversity, College Faculty, Females
Learning From "Didactikids": An Impetus for Revisiting the Empty Number Line
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van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2008
This article discusses students' perceptions as a source for understanding education. It addresses what didactically experienced children, called "didactikids", taught us about the empty number line as a didactical model for teaching whole number calculations. The article mainly reports on a student consultancy study carried out in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Numbers, Number Concepts
Mentoring Faculty to Improve Teaching and Student Learning
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Brightman, Harvey J. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2005
For teaching to improve, three factors must be in place. First, the college must use a valid and reliable student evaluation instrument in combination with other feedback mechanisms. Second, there must be an accompanying norming report that provides comparative and diagnostic information to departmental chairs and teachers. Raw data from even a…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Faculty, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Students
A.I.D. (Assessment for Instructional Development): An English Adaptation of IDEA.
de Winter Hebron, C. C. – 1977
An attempt to adapt the U.S.-based IDEA (Instructional Development by Evaluation and Assessment) system to Great Britain is described. This widely-used method of faculty evaluation based on student ratings was pioneered by Kansas State University. Among the features of IDEA are the following: it relates student perceptions of teacher behavior to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation
IDEA Technical Report No. 1. Development of the IDEA System.
Hoyt, Donald P.; Cashin, William E. – 1977
The development of the IDEA system, a survey concerning teacher effectiveness at Kansas State University (KSU) is described. The system originated at KSU during the 1968-69 academic year as a means for investigating the effectiveness of teaching and for improving instruction. A discussion concerning its purpose and rationale is included. The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis