IMPROVING TEACHING & LEARNING IN THE ACADEMY: STUDENT
EVALUATIONS & TEACHING CONCERNS
Monday, February
26, 2001, Titan Student Union
8:00
– 8:30 am Registration & Breakfast
8:30
– 8:40 am Welcome & Introductory Remarks
Dr. Ephraim Smith, Vice President, Academic Affairs
8:40
– 8:50 am Mary Grace Cachuela,
Associated Student President
8:50
– 9:00 am Ellen Junn, Director,
Faculty Development Center
9:00
– 9:45 am Keynote Address
Dr.
Peter Seldin, Pace University
“Changing Practices
in Evaluating Teaching”
9:45
– 10:05 am Questions and Answers
10:05
– 10:15 am Break
10:15
– 11:00 am Keynote Address
Dr. Anthony Greenwald,
University of Washington
“Making Best Use of Student Evaluations”
11:00
– 11:20 am Questions & Answers
11:20
– 11:30 am Break
11:30
– 12:30 pm Morning Breakout Sessions
·
A
Common Campus-Wide Teaching Evaluation – What are the
Implications? (Ontiveros AB)
Facilitators: Sandy Sutphen &
Jack Bedell
·
Facilitating
Student Self Assessment of Learning (Bradford AB)
Facilitators: Patricia Szeszulski
& Linda Fraser
·
Student
Perspective on Teaching Evaluations (Gilman AB)
Facilitator: Mary Grace Cachuela
·
Making
Sense of Your Own Ratings (Pavilion BC)
Facilitator:
Anthony Greenwald
·
Alternative
Indicators of Teaching Effectiveness (Hetebrink A)
Facilitator: Peter Seldin
12:30
– 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30
– 2:00 pm Carnegie CASTL Report – Come hear of our
new peer support of teaching project
2:00
– 3:00 pm Afternoon Teaching Issues Breakout Sessions
·
Carnegie
Continued – Exploring the Microteaching Concept Further
(Ontiveros AB)
Facilitators: Norm Page, Lynda Randall, Kay Stanton, Abel Zeballos,
Shahin Ghazanshahi
·
Supporting Under-Prepared
Students (Bradford AB)
Facilitator: Rosalie Gilford & Sheryl Fontaine
·
Assessing Student
Learning (Gilman AB)
Facilitators: Patricia Szeszulski & Judy Smith
·
How Should Students
Evaluate Online Courses?
(Hetebrink A)
Facilitator: Sorel Reisman
3:00 – 4:00 pm Plenary Reports
4:00 – 5:00 pm Wine and Cheese Reception hosted
by
Dr. Robert Palmer, Vice President, Student Affairs
About
the keynotes…
Peter Seldin is Distinguished Professor of Management at Pace University,
Pleasantville, New York. A specialist in the development and evaluation
of college teaching, he has been consultant to more than 300 colleges
and universities throughout the United States and in 32 countries around
the world. Author of eleven well-received books, including the best-selling
Teaching Portfolio, Second Edition, and Changing
Practices in Evaluating Teaching, he has also contributed numerous
articles on teaching, student ratings and academic culture to such publications
as The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
and Change Magazine. Peter has won awards both as an
educator and a grower of cherry tomatoes.
Anthony Greenwald is Professor of Psychology at University of Washington.
He has served as Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
and Chair of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. As a researcher
he has published several books and more than 100 articles on attitudes,
the self, research methodology, student ratings, unconscious influences
on affect and cognition. His recent creation, the Implicit Association
Test, is receiving wide use to investigate unconscious components of
prejudices and stereotypes. Greenwald received the Donald T. Campbell
Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in 1995
and is currently a recipient of a Research Scientist Award from the
National Institutes of Health.
