Evaluating Teaching in Higher Education: A Visionfor the Future (Issue 83: New Directions for Teaching and Learning-TL)
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More About This Title Evaluating Teaching in Higher Education: A Visionfor the Future (Issue 83: New Directions for Teaching and Learning-TL)

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This issue analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches to evaluating teaching and recommends practical strategies for both improving current evaluation methods and developing new ones. The contributors provide an overview of new techniques such as peer evaluations, portfolios, and student ratings of instructors and technologies that can help instructors become more effective and help institutions demonstrate that effectiveness. This is the 83rd issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning.

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KATHERINE E. RYAN is associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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1. Shortcomings of Research on Evaluating and Improving Teaching in Higher Education Robert Menges
2. Teaching Evaluation: Past, Present, and Future John C. Ory
3. Toward a More Holistic Approach to Assessing Faculty as Teachers Lawrence A. Braskamp
4. Technology, Evaluation, and the Visibility of Teaching and Learning Randall J. Bass
5. Situational Evaluation of Teaching on Campus Robert E. Stake, Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour
6. An Examination of the Implementation of Peer Review of Teaching Daniel J. Bernstein, Jessica Jonson, Karen Smith
7. Evaluating the Teaching Portfolio: A Role for Colleagues John A. Centra
8. Creating Responsive Student Ratings Systems to Improve Evaluation Practice Michael Theall, Jennifer Franklin
9. A Comprehensive Approach to the Evaluation of College Teaching Trav D. Johnson, Katherine E. Ryan
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