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Peer reviewedCentra, John A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
The teaching portfolio has been promoted as a vehicle for collecting and documenting information about an individual's teaching performance. The problem of how best to assess the information has not yet been addressed adequately. This article describes how a teacher's colleagues can provide assessments of portfolios. (JM)
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Portfolio Assessment
Download full textCentra, John A.; Linn, Robert L. – 1973
This study investigated student points of view in their ratings of specific courses and instructors by analyzing student responses within each of three classes separately, and then sought to generalize the results further by additional analyses, with 300 students randomly selected from 402 classes in five colleges. Different points of view were…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Course Evaluation, Faculty Evaluation
Peer reviewedCentra, John A. – Change, 1973
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Reaction
Centra, John A. – 1972
College teachers' self-ratings were investigated in this study by comparing them to ratings given by students. The sample consisted of 343 teaching faculty from five colleges; these teachers, as well as the students in one of their classes, responded to 21-item instructional report questionnaire. Correlating teacher responses to each item with the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation
Centra, John A. – 1977
Department heads from 134 institutions (mainly universities) indicated the weight they generally give to various criteria for evaluating individual faculty members. The questionnaire they responded to included: criteria used for evaluating overall faculty performance; sources of information for evaluating teaching; and kinds of information used…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Department Heads, Departments, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedCentra, John A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1987
Six evaluation methods are discussed: student ratings, colleague evaluations, definitions of good teaching, teacher-designed examinations, evaluation of research and scholarship, and the politics of evaluation. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
Peer reviewedCentra, John A.; Bonesteel, Peggy – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1990
Research on college teaching supports classifying teaching as much an art as a science. The expectation that student evaluation of teachers can result in exact teacher rankings is unrealistic and stifles the artistry in teaching. However, current evaluation techniques can yield broader classifications of effectiveness and help improve instruction.…
Descriptors: Classification, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedCentra, John A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
Research indicates that colleagues, administrators, students, and alumni have all identified similar general characteristics of effective college teachers and teaching and can make valid evaluations of individual teachers. A proposed process for identifying teaching award winners has two stages: (1) nomination using a rating and description form;…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Alumni, College Faculty, College Instruction
Peer reviewedCentra, John A. – Journal of Higher Education, 1994
A study investigated the use of teaching portfolios and student evaluations in evaluating 97 college faculty members for contract renewal. Two faculty peers and a dean evaluated the portfolio of each teacher. Student evaluations correlated reasonably well with portfolio evaluations by the deans and one of the peers. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Contracts
Centra, John A. – 1993
The use of the teaching portfolio and student evaluations in evaluating 97 faculty members at a community college for contract renewal was studied. Two faculty peers and a dean evaluated the portfolios of each teacher. Deans also visited classrooms. Portfolios could include material about students that reflected their learning, material from the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Community Colleges, Correlation
