Assessing Teaching: A Curriculum Theory Approach

I’ve been thinking a lot this past semester about how we assess teaching, for various reasons. During conversations about this topic, I realized that people come at it from different philosophical perspectives that depend on their worldviews (which aren’t mutually exclusive, but can occasionally clash). For the most part, I’ve heard people talk about evaluating teaching in higher education in three ways: student evaluations (usually end-of-semester surveys done routinely), peer observatio...