Episodes
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Gender Bias in Course Evaluations
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Have you ever received comments in student evaluations that focus on your appearance, your personality, or competence? Do students refer to you as teacher or an inappropriate title, like Mr. or Mrs., rather than professor? For some, this may sound all too familiar. Kristina Mitchell, a Political Science Professor from Texas Tech University, joins us in this episode to discuss her research exploring gender bias in student course evaluations.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
Mobile Technology in the Classroom
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
Smartphones, laptops and tablets can be useful learning tools in the classroom; they can also be a source of distraction. In this episode, we discuss alternative policies that faculty and students might adopt to facilitate learning. Recent research on the relative effectiveness of handwritten vs. digital notetaking is also examined.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at: http://teaforteaching.com
Wednesday Dec 06, 2017
Evidence-based teaching in large classes.
Wednesday Dec 06, 2017
Wednesday Dec 06, 2017
Effective teaching requires good classroom management skills, engaging public speaking skills, and the use of evidence-based teaching strategies. All of this can be particularly daunting while teaching large-enrollment classes. In this episode, Bill Goffe, describes how his instructional approaches in large economic classes have evolved over time, in response to findings from cognitive science and educational research.
Bill Goffe is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Penn State and a former colleague at the State University of New York at Oswego. Bill is very well known in the profession for his Resources for Economists on the Internet, which was one of the very first internet guides available for economists (and is now hosted and sponsored by the American Economic Association). He is the Secretary-Treasurer for the Society of Computational Economics , an Associate Editor for Computational Economics and the online section of the Journal of Economic Education. He's also an editorial board member for Netnomics.
A transcript and show notes are available at teaforteaching.com