Hi TIPsters:
For the last several days I have been reviewing my asorted files for the
purpose of throwing out files that I no longer want or need. In doing so I happened
upon the short piece below. You may find the short piece below. interesting... Your
comment is invited.
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There are many possible indicators of effective teaching, but unfortunately
most of the direct products of instruction are not articulated in any theory
of effective teaching, and are not well operationalized. There is little good research
to establish the complex network of relationships between student impressions of the
processes of instruction and the impacts of those processes on student cognition and
affect.
_For example_, most studies of the relationships between ratings and teacher-produced
student learning have dealt with learning at the _lowest_ level of the Bloom taxonomy.
If higher learning was carefully studied the dimensions of effective instruction might
change.
Abrami, P.C. (1989). How should we use student ratings to evaluate teaching? Research
in Higher Education, Vol 30, no 2.
Abrami, P.C. (1989). How should we use student ratings to evaluate teaching? Research
in Higher Education, Vol 30, no 2.
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...John C Damron, PhD *
...Douglas College, DLC * * *
...P.O Box 2503 * * *
...New Westminster, British Columbia
...Canada V3L 5B2
...e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.douglas.bc.ca/
http://www.douglas.bc.ca/psychd/index.html
........ Know thyself'
