Mississippi State University, Mississippi
March 9, 2025
March 9, 2025
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Professional Papers
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Dr. Piper serves as a Teaching Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering at Mississippi State University. He has instructed more than 100 courses and laboratory sections across Industrial & Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, and Biomedical Engineering at four institutions in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. His primary interest lies in the modeling and enhancement of processes, including those related to the assessment of teaching and learning within the engineering classroom.
Jenna Johnson, Ph.D., is an assistant teaching professor and undergraduate coordinator for the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Gulf Coast Campus of Mississippi State University. She is a three-time MSU graduate. Before joining the ISE Department in 2019, Jenna worked in aerospace manufacturing, shipbuilding, and manufacturing consulting. While in industry, she specialized in Six Sigma methodologies and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt via the American Society for Quality. Jenna’s research interest lies within Engineering Education, with current project work emphasizing engineering student success for students transferring from two-year institutions to four-year institutions.
The process for assessing teaching effectiveness in an industrial and systems engineering department has been thoroughly overhauled based on the Teaching Quality Framework initiative from the University of Colorado Boulder. The TQF initiative, along with subsequent projects like TEVal.net, aims to enhance educational practices by employing effective evaluation and assessment techniques. Departmental guidelines have been established to assist faculty in self-assessing their teaching effectiveness (self voice), gathering and analyzing constructive feedback from student evaluations (student voice), and collaborating with colleagues to assess teaching through a multi-dimensional observational approach (peer voice). Additionally, templates are provided to compile assessment data and feedback for both formative uses, such as enhancing course delivery or curriculum revision, and summative uses, including annual faculty evaluations, as well as tenure and promotion decisions. This initiative is a work in progress, with further discussions of implementation strategies to come.
Academic, Instructional
Piper, A., & Johnson, J., & Dunaway, D. (2025, March), Transforming Teaching Evaluations One Department at a Time Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi. https://peer.asee.org/54197
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