Cassandra GoodMay 19, 2023

Since it’s teaching eval season again, just a reminder that numerous studies have shown that these evals measure bias, not teaching effectiveness. Their use in for anything beyond feedback directly to the prof—ie tenure & promotion—is legally dubious, professionally irresponsible, and ethically wrong.

So, read yours with a glass of wine and a whole shaker of salt. Solidarity to all the women out there who get comments on being motherly or mean, well-dressed or unattractive, too challenging or a push-over.

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Show threadGrandma BatesMay 19, 2023
@cgoodhistorian Do you have citations to some of the studies that would be good for early graduate students? I would like to share some with students, but most of the ones I found have a focus that is slightly askew of the idea and not good for those just starting to teach.
Show threadCassandra Good
@grandmaBates Yep, shared some links this morning: https://hcommons.social/@cgoodhistorian/110395878520697245
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Since my post yesterday on the problems with student evals of teaching got lots of attention, some follow-up info: -bibliography of lit on bias in SETs up to 2019: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14JiF-fT--F3Qaefjv2jMRFRWUS8TaaT9JjbYke1fgxE/mobilebasic -strategies for mitigating bias in SETs: https://assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu/overview/institute-files/2019-institute/monday-2019/mzumara.pdf -University of Oregon's alternative eval system: https://provost.uoregon.edu/revising-uos-teaching-evaluations -USC's resources for peer vals of teaching: https://cet.usc.edu/resources/instructor-course-evaluation/ #academicmastodon #academia #teaching #histodons

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Show threadGrandma BatesMay 22, 2023
@cgoodhistorian Thank you!