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Henklain, Marcelo H. O.; Carmo, João S.; Haydu, Verônica Bender; Muniz, Monalisa – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2018
We studied Brazilian faculty and psychology undergraduates' perspectives on excellent teaching using the Teacher Behavior Checklist. In two studies, we found that students and teachers showed strong agreement with those TBC items relevant to developing a profile of excellent teachers and that students valued some qualities more than others in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes
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Theall, Michael – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
The evaluation of teaching has sparked much debate for many decades. There are several reasons why the debate about evaluation and ratings continues, but the underlying problems in evaluation are more complex than a simple, valid-invalid or reliable-unreliable dichotomy suggests. The issues are often buried beneath bipolar rhetoric that has been…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teaching Methods, Influences, Reliability
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Cashin, William E.; Downey, Ronald G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1995
A study investigated whether Biglan clusters of academic disciplines (hard/soft, pure/applied, life/nonlife) could be used to explain disciplinary differences in college student ratings of instruction. It was found that Biglan clusters do not explain the differences, many disciplines still emphasize knowledge acquisition over higher-order skills,…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design