More from the the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio back in November. I’m pretty sure this will be my last post on the conference! Student Evaluation of Teaching: Views of Students and Faculty Ted Wagenaar and Sara Butler, Miami University The presenters are part of a group studying [...]
The latest issue of the American Mathematical Society’s Notices includes an essay by Steven Zucker [PDF], a mathematician at Johns Hopkins University. In the essay Zucker argues that student course evaluations are not appropriate for evaluating the effectiveness of teaching and that the use of “surveys” to do so “pushes us to dumb down our [...]
Welcome to my home page. I’m Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). I’m also acting director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University.
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