Opening Plenary

Agenda for January 14, 2021

12:00pm-1:30pm ET | 11:00am-12:30pm CT | 10:00am-11:30am MT | 9:00am-10:30am PT

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12:00 pm ET Transforming STEM Teaching Evaluation in Higher Education

  • Gabriela Weaver, Assistant Dean for Student Success Analytics and Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst


12:10 pm ET National Academies’ work on Teaching and Teaching Evaluation

                • Heidi Schweingruber, Director, Board on Science Education, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

12:20 pm ET Campus Context for Efforts to Transform Teaching Evaluation

  • Moderator: Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Professor of Pyschology and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Gautt Teaching Scholar, University of Kansas

Bryan Dewsbury

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island

Susan Elrod

Chancellor, University of Indiana, South Bend

Diane O'Dowd

Vice Provost, Academic Personnel, University of California, Irvine

Yves Salomon-Fernandez

President, Greenfield Community College

12:50 pm ET Goals for the National Dialogue Work on Transforming Teaching Evaluation

  • Christine Broussard, Chair, Natural Science Division, University of La Verne

1:00 pm ET Themes and Approaches to Transforming Teaching Evaluation, Sharing of Ideas from Participants, and Invitation to Interactive Poster Symposium and Discussion Channels

  • Ann Austin, Associate Dean for Research, College of Education and Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University

  • Noah Finkelstein, Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for STEM Learning, University of Colorado, Boulder


1:30 pm ET End of Opening Plenary

National Dialogue Opening Plenary Bios 14JAN2021.pdf