Ory emphasizes four processes in assessing faculty: examining the craft of teaching; faculty members reflecting on the quality of and standards for their work; receiving feedback from others with the expectation that faculty will improve and assessing the work of others by focusing on the value of the work. (JM)

A direct-instruction approach to computer-assisted instruction is proposed, with the corrective feedback paradigm. Features of the paradigm include adaptive feedback techniques with discrimination training and increasing ratio review. An experiment where 102 undergraduate students learned English-Japanese (transliterated) word pairs demonstrated…

Examines three media of model and of self-generated performance feedback in a self-instructional learning activity in counselor training. Results indicate that learning is significantly enhanced when a written performance feedback component is added to a written modeling component. The same did not hold true for audio and video presentations.…

Based on a longer report with the same title, this digest summarizes what college faculty can do to improve their teaching. It maintains that faculty need to stop viewing college teaching as "covering the content" and start viewing it as "helping students learn." To help faculty achieve such an instructional transformation,…

This report presents a collection of teaching models to help college faculty improve their teaching. Six categories of teaching models are presented: (1) assessment and feedback models, including the Classroom Assessment model created by Angelo and Cross and already widely used among community college faculty; (2) discussion and sharing models,…

Any teacher who reflects on teaching knows that he or she learns as much if not more from students as vice-versa. One means of encouraging this communication in a basic reference course is described--a culminating project which asks students to choose a word with which to review sources and to present the results in an organized way. (Author)

Research has shown that student mid-term feedback has significantly increased subsequent ratings of teacher effectiveness, student achievement, and student attitudes when the feedback results were accompanied by expert consultation. A gap in the literature is an instrument intended to provide specific feedback on systematic planning and delivery…

A model for courses in which media are used has been designed by a research group at the Royel Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The model suggests that instruction be planned for in weekly packages. These should include a limited number of instructional aids, should begin with a motivating section, and should offer training in the solving of…

This paper reports on the influence of a graduate course, "Methods for Masters," designed to broaden the pedagogical repertoires of cooperating teachers by providing experience in six instructional models (cooperative learning, concept attainment, group investigation, learning contracts, simulations, and synectics). The course used…

Video recordings provide an authentic feedback of classroom interaction, and microteaching a systematic method for analysis of these tapes and the acquisition of special teaching skills. Their combined use in teacher education has resulted in improved teacher-classroom interaction at the college level. The development of individual and group…