Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

While student course evaluations do provide valuable feedback to instructors, they’re also easily subject to student biases.

Student evaluation of teaching (SET) is widely used to measure the quality of teaching, and often controversially, for teacher recruitment, promotion and tenure. Institution-led SET is largely ...

Pinterest boasts more than 1,000 ideas about how students can self-evaluate their own learning. My Google search on the same topic offered six million results. Clearly, the resources are plentiful.

While the content and focus of feedback offered to students will depend on each individual course and assignment, several principles transcend disciplinary boundaries. When setting up feedback ...

Why do higher education institutions (HEIs) collect data on student evaluations of teaching (SET)? The two main reasons are: to provide student feedback to instructors on their teaching effectiveness; ...

American psychologist Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs speaks of self-actualisation as the ultimate level of motivation. He identified five needs: physiological (food, clothing), safety (job ...

Dental education has increasingly embraced self-assessment as a critical component in cultivating reflective, competent practitioners. Modern curricula are designed to encourage students to evaluate ...

The end of every Duke semester follows a familiar pattern: exams, papers and a flood of emails urging students to complete course evaluations. Course evaluations aim to “help instructors identify ...

Parents enroll their children in language immersion programs in order to give them the gift of knowing another language. They also expect that their children will do as well or better in learning the ...

Although autumn seems a bit delayed in parts of the US, the semester calendar is still marching on. The Midterms are here (no, not those midterm elections, rather, the midterms that happen on campus).