SECTION C: ASPECTS OF SCHOLARLY TEACHING

(iv) Method of Evaluating

 

Aim 5: Study relevant parts of the Discipline based literature that provide accounts of or recommendations for teaching evaluation within your own discipline, and critically appraise this from a student learning perspective.
Topic 5/Task:

By this time you will have identified a group of journals or books that address teaching and learning in your own disciplinary field, or a cognate area.

As before, your goal is to locate and critically read a few papers or chapters that appear, from their titles, to be likely to address, recommend, critique or evaluate, some method or approach or strategies for evaluating teaching.

Read whatever you can find, and summarise what position the respective authors appear to take about teaching methods.

Think about what, provided you could get the arguments together, would be a useful and provocative title for a piece you might someday decide to write and submit for publication in your own disciplinary area, that would challenge, critique or further extend understanding of how evaluation should be carried out in your own field of teaching. Make it an article that would draw upon your own dissatisfactions, both arising from experience in the classroom and from the readings you have undertaken in this module. Make a preliminary list of the points you might cover in that article. Show it to others; compare and discuss.


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