Using the Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) to Improve Teaching Effectivness

The national debate about education, which escalated in 1983 with the publication of A Nation at Risk by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, continues with a reexamination into the teaching and learning processes employed at all levels of education in the United States. A Nation at Risk cited the quality of teaching and learning as the primary issue of concern regarding education. Quality remains the major educational issue and warrants answers to two fundamental questions: (1) How effectively are teachers teaching? and (2) How well are students (a) learning? and (b) able to perform in higher education institutions, in professional schools, and on-the-job