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Evaluation of Teaching Practices

Evaluation of Teaching Practices is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of teaching and learning in higher education, including student evaluations, approaches to learning, teaching effectiveness, learning environments, pedagogical training, scholarship of teaching, inquiry-based learning, faculty development, and student perceptions. The papers address the challenges and opportunities in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning experiences in higher education.

  • Student Evaluations
  • Approaches to Learning
  • Teaching Effectiveness
  • Higher Education
  • Learning Environments
  • Pedagogical Training
  • Scholarship of Teaching
  • Inquiry-based Learning
  • Faculty Development
  • Student Perceptions
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Evaluation of Teaching Practices

Which countries lead Evaluation of Teaching Practices research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 266 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 266 works
  3. 3 China 188 works
  4. 4 Australia 175 works
  5. 5 Canada 146 works
  6. 6 India 84 works
  7. 7 Germany 81 works
  8. 8 South Africa 72 works
  9. 9 Spain 61 works
  10. 10 Vietnam 47 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 50.6%United Kingdom: 11.7%China: 8.3%Australia: 7.7%6 others listed: 21.7%51%largest
United States1,145 · 50.6%United Kingdom266 · 11.7%China188 · 8.3%Australia175 · 7.7%6 others listed491 · 21.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Evaluation of Teaching Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Purdue University West Lafayette publishes the most Evaluation of Teaching Practices research, followed by University of Toronto and Pennsylvania State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 15 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 15 works
  3. 3 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 15 works
  4. 4 Indiana UniversityUnited States 14 works
  5. 5 Rowan UniversityUnited States 13 works
  6. 6 University of Hong KongChina 13 works
  7. 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 12 works
  8. 8 Monash UniversityAustralia 12 works
  9. 9 University of British ColumbiaCanada 11 works
  10. 10 University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Evaluation of Teaching Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Evaluation of Teaching Practices include Salman Rawaf, John W. Creswell and Joseph F. Hair.

  1. 1 Salman Rawaf United Kingdom 205k citations
  2. 2 John W. Creswell United States 186k citations
  3. 3 Joseph F. Hair United States 163k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Evaluation of Teaching Practices?

The most cited paper in Evaluation of Teaching Practices is "The Power of Feedback" (John Hattie, Helen S. Timperley, 2007), with 12,703 citations. Next come "Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice" (5,748) and "Formative assessment and the design of instructional systems" (4,252).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Power of Feedback John Hattie, Helen S. Timperley · Review of Educational Research Open access Mar 2007 12,703
2 Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice David Nicol, Debra Macfarlane‐Dick · Studies in Higher Education 21 Mar 2006 5,748
3 Formative assessment and the design of instructional systems D. Royce Sadler · Instructional Science Jun 1989 4,252
4 Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment JOHN B. BIGGS · Higher Education Oct 1996 3,971
5 Phenomenography ? Describing conceptions of the world around us Ference Marton · Instructional Science Jul 1981 3,294
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Where is Evaluation of Teaching Practices research done?

The largest centres of Evaluation of Teaching Practices research in 2022-now are Melbourne (Australia), London (United Kingdom), Brisbane (Australia) and Toronto (Canada).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MelbourneAustralia 49 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 41 works
  3. 3 BrisbaneAustralia 27 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 25 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 23 works
  6. 6 AtlantaUnited States 20 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 19 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 19 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 19 works
  10. 10 HanoiVietnam 18 works
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Where is the best place to study Evaluation of Teaching Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Deakin University and University of Toronto score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 13.29%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…Deakin UniversityThe University of Me…University of Toronto
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Hong KongChina 77.038.5%4.9×13 -25.9%
2Deakin UniversityAustralia 58.029.1%9.0×11 -23.0%
3University of TorontoCanada 53.86.4%2.7×15 +26.0%
4The University of MelbourneAustralia 51.514.4%4.1×12 -15.5%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 50.315.8%4.6×12 -36.4%
6Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 50.13.7%4.8×14 +22.3%
7Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 47.76.3%5.8×15 -42.4%
8Indiana UniversityUnited States 46.39.3%5.3×14 -32.6%
9Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 45.56.5%14.0×11 +132.0%
10University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 44.72.9%6.2×11 +24.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Evaluation of Teaching Practices, country by country

Is Evaluation of Teaching Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Evaluation of Teaching Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Evaluation of Teaching Practices over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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