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Professor Hacker asks what instructors do when students give feedback that is verifiably wrong. Readers have submitted ways of handling/preventing this.

Interesting study with some important implications for how we look at student evaluations. ""Even when there is no evidence of bias, students believe that minorities bring political baggage into the classroom, whereas whites, men, and heterosexuals bring with them the cool heads of objectivity," said Anderson."

Google launched an open source course building web application for developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring course material online, track student engagement (with web traffic and surveys), and evaluate performance.

This document helps instructors interpret the results from SEIs here at Ohio State and gives them suggestions for how to improve areas where they might want to raise their scores.

How could this work in higher education?