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
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