TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Kathy L
AU  - Brua,Chas
AU  - Ramsay,Crystal M.
AU  - Hood,Larkin
AU  - Weinstein,Suzanne
AU  - Scruggs,Richard
TI  - An examination of teaching award support letters: what they reveal about how students and faculty perceive teaching excellence
SN  - 1052-4800
AV  - LB1778 JOU 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Canada
PB  - Miami University
KW  - Teacher effectiveness
KW  - Awards
KW  - Letters (Correspondence)
N2  - The term "teaching excellence" is frequently used but difficult to define. In an effort to expand upon previous work to define teaching excellence, the authors analyzed 93 teaching award nomination letters of students and peer faculty from a large, land-grant university in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Content analysis identified 25 codes that were used to compare the student and faculty letters in terms of code frequency. The codes were then applied to the university's student ratings instrument to compare the alignment between commonly used questions on the instrument and the spontaneously generated codes from the student and faculty letters. Results showed that students and faculty frequently use the same criteria to evaluate excellent teaching
ER  -