Developing Metrics for Assessing Engineering Instruction: What Gets Measured is What Gets Improved

A Report from the Steering Committee for Evaluating Instructional Scholarship in Engineering; National Academy of Engineering. Developing Metrics for Assessing Engineering Instruction provides a concise description of a process to develop and institute a valid and acceptable means of measuring teaching effectiveness in order to foster greater acceptance and rewards for faculty efforts to improve their performance of the teaching role that makes up a part of their faculty responsibility. Although the focus of this book is in the area of engineering, the concepts and approaches are applicable to all fields in higher education.

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