I'm not sure that the portfolios are meant to be a means of comparing your
class to another. I also don't believe that student evaluations provide
information about the quality of your courses. Unless you include a measure
of student outcomes, you can never tell how your course compares to another
section of the same course.
Gary J. Klatsky, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oswego State University of NY http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky
Oswego, NY 13126 Voice: (315) 312 3474
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Brandon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:36 PM
To: Gary Klatsky
Cc: Mike Scoles; TIPS
Subject: RE: course evaluations
At 2:14 PM -0500 1/24/01, Gary Klatsky wrote:
>I'm probably not the one to answer this as my knowledge of teaching
>portfolios is limited to the presentation I went to. The advantage of the
>portfolio is that it provides information in addtion to your "classroom
>presence". Typically course syllabi, exams, assignments you have graded
>are submitted to someone with experience in the course and they provide an
>evaluation of that material. The portfolio would include the material you
>had evaluated and the evalutations, student and peer evaluations of you
>teaching performance and a statement of your teaching philosophy.
>
>Clearly you could set it up to improve how you look but if you are really
>looking for feedback to improve your teaching that would make no sense.
And of course it's very difficult to quantify, so it's nearly impossible to
support a statement that your performance is better or worse than that of
other instructors.
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Dept Minnesota State University, Mankato *
* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 *
* http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html *
