Assessing Teaching Effectiveness in a Basic Food Laboratory Setting: Phase One – Delphi Panel Study

This project developed a SET for assessing teaching effectiveness in a basic food laboratory setting at senior level institutions and convened a Delphi panel of leading academicians to identify the most desirable competencies and to develop the criteria for measuring each competency.

Abstract

ABSTRACT To ensure a high standard of teaching effectiveness in the delivery of instruction, universities employ various methods. The student evaluation tool (SET) has become the most commonly used measure of teaching effectiveness in a classroom environment. However, the majority of food laboratory instructors insist that these same criteria are not appropriate or applicable to measuring teaching effectiveness in a basic food laboratory setting. The purpose of this project was to develop a SET for assessing teaching effectiveness in a basic food laboratory setting at senior level institutions. Given the exploratory nature of the research, the authors convened a Delphi panel of leading academicians to identify the most desirable competencies and to develop the criteria for measuring each competency.