Dear list
UCL has had these for several years now
(http://uclu.org/representation/education/student-choice-teaching-awards).
The entire thing is student-led and run.
However, this year's winners were virtually all men and were not
representative generally of UCL's very international mix, so people were
worrying about bias in evaluation processes (essentially, students
favouring white men) -- I don't think it's controversial to say that
happens.
UCL has no role in it apart from organising the awards (along with our
Provost's Teaching Awards, which is self-nomination and judged by a
panel from across the university) and funding the prizes -- why don't
you ask your students to come up with their own criteria?;)
Interested to hear what others think so do please do the usual
collation.
Cheers
Jason Davies
CALT, UCL
On 16 May 2016, at 16:05, Sarah Edwards wrote:
> Apologies if this subject has ‘done the rounds’ before, but do any
> members have experience of staff being nominated for Teaching Awards
> by students?
>
> We are considering these around various categories, but wondered if
> members had positive/negative feedback about such schemes and defining
> criteria?
>
|