Emerson College Library: Office of Academic Assessment: Learning-Centered Teaching & Assessment

Learning-Centered Teaching & Assessment

"...many faculty are striving to incorporate more learning-centered teaching approaches. These approaches focus on the learning process and student learning outcomes. Learning-centered teaching is not a single teaching method; it covers a variety of evidence-based techniques and pedagogies that help students to learn. ... When teachers use learning-centered teaching, students acquire deep and lasting learning that they can use to solve problems in real world situations (Weimer, 2013)."

Source: https://assessatcuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/04/assessing-the-implementation-of-changes-to-teaching/

Resources

Blumberg, Phyllis. "Assessing the Implementation of Changes to Teaching." The Assessment Review, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2022.
This article points to the challenges with using student evaluations as a primary mode for assessing teaching, and proposes an alternative model to employ and assess learning-centered teaching methods. "To demonstrate their teaching effectiveness, teachers must use evidence beyond student course evaluations. Collecting data to evaluate teaching should also be used to foster improvements in teaching as opposed to being punitive. The purpose of this article is to describe a data collection method that also suggests ways to improve teaching."