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Download full textOverall, Jesse U., IV; Marsh, Herbert W. – AAHE Bulletin, 1982
Recent research (1978-1982) on student evaluations of teaching is reviewed, including: influence of background variables pertaining to the student, the teacher, and the learning environment; the dimensions of the teaching being evaluated; the validity of students' evaluations; the "Doctor Fox" effect and its implications for validity; the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedSmith, Al, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1983
The articles in this collection focus on processes for evaluating community college faculty and staff and highlight successful and unsuccessful evaluation practices. The collection includes: (1) "A Conceptual Framework for Staff Evaluation," by Al Smith; (2) "Evaluation of Full-Time Faculty," by Lawrence H. Poole and Donald A. Dellow; (3)…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria
de Winter Hebron, C. C. – 1979
The results of a project to determine how English polytechnic lecturers see their teaching objectives are presented. Development of a behaviorally referenced student feedback questionnaire and the theory behind behavioral referencing are described. The definitions of teaching and learning are explored and the relationship between teaching and…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, College Faculty
Heaman, Robert J. – 1985
Difficulties experienced by Wilkes College (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) as a result of declining enrollments and shifts in student majors, and the resolution of differences between the administration and the faculty, are described in an essay. Related revision of institutional mission and peer-evaluation procedures are also discussed in an article…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment, Departments
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – Findings, 1979
The status of women faculty in colleges and universities is considered. While there has been increased hiring of women on college faculties, women faculty members still lag behind men in rank and salary, even when differences in fields, institutions, and postdoctoral experience are considered. Women presently constitute about 24 percent of the…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Degrees
Prodgers, Stephen B., Ed. – 1980
The need for more consistent and comprehensive procedures for evaluating faculty performance is discussed in this newsletter. Declining student enrollments and financial restraints have created a "no growth" climate on campuses and it is suggested that this environment will require a two-thirds drop in the demand for new faculty at a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Development
Baldwin, Roger G. – Administrator's Update, 1982
Types of initiatives that colleges have implemented to foster continuing faculty career growth and the major attributes essential to success of the efforts are considered. The role of administrators in supporting faculty growth and vitality is also addressed. Several colleges and universities encourage career planning activities in which faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Change, Career Planning, Faculty College Relationship
Koch, James V. – AAHE Bulletin, 1982
Salary equity issues in higher education are examined with reference to sex discrimination in faculty salaries, the law and its application, judicial deference toward higher education, and the nature of salary equity evidence. The basis for most salary equity studies has been the simple observation that salaries of male professors are generally…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Court Litigation, Court Role, Employment Practices
Manfred, Madge, Ed. – Communitas: Journal of the Connecticut Community College Professional Staff, 1980
Curricular and instructional issues are discussed in 12 articles by faculty of the Connecticut community colleges. Jack McLean examines the potential role of community colleges in international education, and Kerin Sarason proposes teacher self-evaluations to reduce faculty/administrator tension. Jean Burr Smith introduces methods of reducing math…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Community Colleges, Counselor Training
Cox, Milton D., Ed.; Richlin, Laurie, Ed. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1990
This annual journal's premier issue features the work, thoughts, adventures, and musings of distinguished and respected teachers. An introduction reports that the journal was born of the desire by faculty to recognize college teaching as a profession and to bring to it its own language and traditions and to establish an academic culture for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Instruction
Powell, J. P., Ed. – Higher Education Research & Development, 1983
Five articles on research and development in higher education and three review articles are presented. Titles and authors are as follows: "Students' Assessments of Instruction as a Basis for Teaching Improvement and Promotions Decisions: A Case-Study" (John Jones); "The Making of Academic Promotion Decisions: Criteria and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Research, Employment Practices, Evaluation Criteria
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1983
The theme of this journal issue is "Institutional Renewal." Projects designed to address the issues of the 1980s at 18 colleges are described, and 15 definitions of institutional renewal are presented. Participating colleges were provided expert advice through the Association of American College's (AAC) Project Lodestar (renamed…
Descriptors: College Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Consultation Programs, Core Curriculum
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