March 28, 2024

Craig Vasey Talks About Teacher Evals in Inside Higher Ed

Craig Vasey, chair of classics, philosophy and religion at the University of Mary Washington and chair of AAUP’s Committee on Teaching, Research and Publications, was recently interviewed for an Insider Higher Ed story called “Teaching Eval Shake-Up.”

According to the story:

Vasey called the “most pernicious element” of quantiative student evaluations is that the results “get translated into rankings, which then take on a life of their own and don’t really improve the quality of education.”

Read the whole article here:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/22/most-institutions-say-they-value-teaching-how-they-assess-it-tells-different-story