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Publication Date: 1975
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A Validation Study of the Faculty Evaluative Criteria at Florida Technological University.
Manning, Patricia Cripe
The study was carried out to assess the extent of agreement as to the validity of the Faculty Evaluative Criteria used in the College of Education at Florida Technological University. The assessment was carried out among students, faculty, and administrators. The implementation of collective bargaining and declining state revenue for higher education highlighted the need for an objective and fair means of faculty evaluation. There were three groups of participants: sixty undergraduate and sixty graduate students, forty-six full time faculty members, and eight administrators. Ninety-two percent of the undergraduate and ninety percent of the graduate students returned usable data. Eighty-three percent of the faculty responded and all of the administrators returned usable data. The instrument was altered to a Likert Scale format. Participants rated each item according to their own perception of the relative importance of each. The ratings were assessed using item frequency distributions, item variances, correlations, internal consistency of the scales, and standard errors of measurement. The data were treated with multivariate analysis of variance and plotted in the smallest space according to multidimensional scaling. Conclusions and recommendations are presented. (RC)
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