Student Ratings of Instruction: A Practical Approach to Designing, Operating, and Reporting: Second Edition Paperback - 2014

Nira Hativa is a professor emeritus of teaching in higher education at Tel-Aviv University (TAU). She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her doctoral dissertation researched effective teaching at that university. In addition to being a faculty member at TAU, she worked as an adjunct faculty at several colleges and a university in the Bay Area, California, and as a teaching consultant and faculty developer at TAU and Stanford University. She has served until recently as the director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching as well as of the online SRI system at TAU. Over the years, she gave many presentations and workshops on effective university teaching and on student ratings of instruction (SRI) at a variety of American and Israeli colleges and universities and at many international conferences, and consulted several higher-education institutions on the transition from in-class to online ratings. In addition to her many publications in Hebrew, she has published in English five books and numerous research and theory articles and book chapters on issues related to effective teaching in higher education and to SRI. She served on the editorial board of several international journals of education. Since 2002 she has been the editor of a journal in Hebrew on teaching in higher education distributed to all faculty members at Israeli universities and colleges. She spent at Stanford university four year long sabbaticals and within this frame she developed, with the support of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford, two DVDs demonstrating effective teaching strategies, showing clips of classes taught by award-winning teachers at Stanford. She has been an active member of POD (Professional and Organizational Development-the American organization of teaching centers personnel) since 1990 and served until recently as head of the Israeli network of teaching centers in universities and colleges and as the Israeli representative to ICED-the International Consortium for Educational Development.