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Layne, L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2012
The author looks at the meaning of specific terminology commonly used in student surveys: "effective teaching." The research seeks to determine if there is a difference in how "effective teaching" is defined by those taking student surveys and those interpreting the results. To investigate this difference, a sample group of professors and students…
Descriptors: College Students, Teacher Effectiveness, Definitions, Student Attitudes
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Palmer, Timothy B.; Short, Jeremy C. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2010
Service-learning is an instructional method that incorporates community service into the curriculum. The integration of service-learning into business pedagogy provides benefits that are particularly valuable to business students. Yet business educators have been slow to integrate service-learning into their classes. The authors explore the…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Business Education, Teaching Methods
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Algozzine, Bob; Beattie, John; Bray, Marty; Flowers, Claudia; Gretes, John; Mohanty, Ganesh; Spooner, Fred – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2010
Student evaluation of instruction in college and university courses has been a routine and mandatory part of undergraduate and graduate education for some time. A major shortcoming of the process is that it relies exclusively on the opinions or qualitative judgments of students rather than on assessing the learning or transfer of knowledge that…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), College Instruction, Student Evaluation, Opinions
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VanVoorhis, Judy L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1999
An interview with Wilbert McKeachie, a leading figure in college teaching and learning, focuses on advice for beginning faculty, including the importance of effective testing, mid-term student evaluations of teaching performance, discussion and questioning techniques, cooperative learning, and peer review strategies to improve college students'…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, College Instruction, Cooperative Learning