Interesting reflection. Great citations. wrv
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From: Professional & Organization Development Network in Higher
Education [ mailto:POD@listserv.nd.edu ] On Behalf Of Richard Hake
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 6:30 PM
To: POD@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [POD] Measuring Teaching Performance
In a PsychTeacher post of 6 May 2005 titled "Re: Measuring Teaching
Performance," Jesse Owen wrote:
"I was wondering what, if any, evaluations have you used to measure
what professors are doing in class? Please note I am not interested
in measures that only examine student satisfaction or preference
(although these items on a measure would be helpful). I have looked
in the literature and have found some useful starting places; however, I
figured that this list would a great resource to help generate some
ideas and some insights about the practicality of these measures."
IMHO, psychology lists such as:
(a) PsychTeacher http://list.kennesaw.edu/archives/psychteacher.html ,
(b) TIPS http://www.mail-archive.com/tips%40acsun.frostburg.edu/, or
(c) TeachingEdPsych
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/teaching_edpsych.html,
may not be the best forums to seek information on "Measuring Teaching
Performance." This even despite the fact that psychologists have
pioneered in educational research [see e.g., Berliner (1992), Lagemann
(2000)].
The reason is that present-day psychologists have, as far as I know, not
bothered to measure the effectiveness of their own introductory courses
with the rigor that characterizes measurement of teaching effectiveness
in disciplines such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science,
economics, physics, and engineering [Hake (2004)].
Nevertheless, much of the funding for educational research is currently
being transferred from the NSF (primarily controlled by scientists and
mathematicians) to the US Dept. of Education (primarily controlled by
psychologists and psychometricians) - see, e..g., Mervis (2005).
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 rrhake@earthlink.net
http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake
http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi
REFERENCES
Berliner, 1993. "The 100-Year Journey of Educational Psychology From
Interest, to Disdain, to Respect for Practice," in Fagan & VandenBos
(1993); online at
http://courses.ed.asu.edu/berliner/readings//journey.htm. See also
Berliner (2002).
Berliner, D. 2002. "Educational research: The hardest science of all,"
Educational Researcher 31(8): 18-20; online at
http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=438
Hake, R.R. 2004. "Re: Measuring Content Knowledge," online at
http://lsv.uky.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0403&L=assess&P=R21652&I=-3.
Post of 14 Mar 2004 16:29:47-0800 to ASSESS, Biop-L, Chemed-L, EvalTalk,
Physhare, PhysLrnR, POD, and STLHE-L.
Hake, R.R. 2005a. "Re: Why Don't Psychologists Research the
Effectiveness of their Own Introductory Courses?" online at
http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0501&L=aera-d&P=R4398&I=-3.
Post of 18 Jan 2005 20:57:2-0800 to AERA-D, EdStat, ASSESS, EvalTalk,
PhysLrnR, POD, PsychTeacher, TeachingEdPsych.
Hake, R.R. 2005b. "Forward from Joseph Merlino: NSF EHR '06 Funding,"
online at
http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0505&L=aera-l&T=0&F=&S=&P=382.
Post of 8/9 May 2005 to AERA-C, AERA-D, AERA-G, AERA-H, AERA-J, AERA-K,
AERA-L, ASSESS, Biopi-L, Chemed-L, EvalTalk, Math-Learn, Phys-L,
PhysLrnR, Physhare, POD, and TIPS.
Lagemann, E.C. 2000. "An Elusive Science: The troubling history of
education research." Univ. of Chicago Press.
Mervis, J. 2005. "Science Education Takes a Hit at NSF," Science 307:
832-833, 11 February; online to subscribers at
http://www.sciencemag.org/. Also placed online by the US House STEM
Caucus http://www.stemedcaucus.org/ in a newsletter at
http://www.stemedcaucus.org/newsletters/newsletter_2005_03.htm
(scroll to the bottom).
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