An Examination of Teaching Award Support Letters: What They Reveal about How Students and Faculty Perceive Teaching Excellence

Autor/inn/en	Jackson, Kathy L.; Brua, Chas; Ramsay, Crystal M.; Hood, Larkin; Weinstein, Suzanne; Scruggs, Richard
Titel	An Examination of Teaching Award Support Letters: What They Reveal about How Students and Faculty Perceive Teaching Excellence
Quelle	In: Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 27 (2016) 3, S.3-33 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-4800
Schlagwörter	Teacher Effectiveness; Awards; Letters (Correspondence); Content Analysis; College Faculty; Excellence in Education; Teaching Skills; Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Peer Groups; Comparative Analysis; Coding; Qualitative Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Award; Auszeichnung; Brief; Inhaltsanalyse; Fakultät; Lernerfolg; Lehrbefähigung; Lehrkompetenz; Unterrichtsbefähigung; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Codierung; Programmierung; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	The term "teaching excellence" is frequently used but difficult to define. In an effort to expand upon previous work to define teaching excellence, the authors analyzed 93 teaching award nomination letters of students and peer faculty from a large, land-grant university in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Content analysis identified 25 codes that were used to compare the student and faculty letters in terms of code frequency. The codes were then applied to the university's student ratings instrument to compare the alignment between commonly used questions on the instrument and the spontaneously generated codes from the student and faculty letters. Results showed that students and faculty frequently use the same criteria to evaluate excellent teaching. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01