School administrators served as subjects to determine the effectiveness of teacher evaluation procedures. Examination of teacher's lesson plan had no effect on teacher assessment. However, prior assessment of lesson plan via an evaluation instrument improved effectiveness of evaluation of teacher's task sequencing skills, subject knowledge, and…

This document contains the results of the Institutional Effectiveness Survey starting from the academic years 1998-1999 to 2002-2003 completed at Pensacola Junior College. The survey calls for reporting Institutional Research as one of the 53 primary functional areas of the College. The document states that the goal of institutional research is to…

A study compared tenured and nontenured faculty, based on seniority, discipline area, and previous degree, for productivity in terms of publications. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses yielded similar results: that tenured faculty are no less productive than nontenured. (MSE)

Investigated the impact of a Management by Objectives (MBO) application in a university setting. Faculty (N=23) completed a questionnaire about perceptions of performance and satisfaction both prior to and after the MBO application. Results suggest that performance increased while satisfaction generally declined. (Author/RC)

This study examines the relationships between program size, the quality of entrants and of the faculty, the faculty's published research output, and the average quality of the Ph.D.s during the 1960s trained by the top thirty-six U.S. graduate programs in economics. (Author)

Faculty evaluation guidelines, which have been in effect for five years at North Carolina State University's School of Education, are described. Outcomes of this system are summarized, as well as some of the problems associated with it. (GDC)

Describes a study that surveyed faculty and staff in 300 two-year colleges to identify the elements of planning, implementation, funding, and evaluation for development of both full-time and part-time faculty. Reports that statistically significant differences were found among colleges of different sizes and among accreditation regions. (Contains…

Presents a framework for ranking college faculty based on their sponsored-project histories, a departure from conventional academic ranking. Distribution of faculty among these ranks within a unit produces a "funding persistence" profile capable of measuring faculty sponsored-project activity independent of the institutional-productivity model.…

There is steadily accumulating evidence of the misuse or overuse of ratings data, but this does not invalidate their usefulness. The research literature has been concerned almost exclusively with the construction of ratings instruments. There has been little systematic study about creating evaluation systems that truly respond to the needs of…

The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) introduced a performance appraisal system (PAS) designed to improve performance indicators across the board in Public Service including academic/faculty staff at the University of Zimbabwe as part of a nation wide strategy. The Public service is a body responsible for all civil workers including academic staff,…

In 1991, a study was conducted to determine what community college presidents have done to promote and reward faculty scholarship. The 117 presidents surveyed were asked to respond to questions concerning faculty activities that demonstrate their involvement in scholarly activities; whether and in what ways the presidents encouraged, recognized,…

The status of litigation involving dismissals of tenured faculty for reasons of incompetence, broadly defined, is evaluated. In practice, there is no consensus within higher education as to what constitutes adequate cause based on incompetence for dismissal of faculty members. The following issues are explored: (1) the pattern of increasing…

The evaluation process for tenured faculty at community colleges was studied. A total of 857 faculty and administrators from nine member colleges of the League for Innovation in the Community College completed questionnaires. Research concerns included: whether formal evaluation policies and procedures existed for tenured faculty; purposes of both…

The purpose of this study was to examine the factor structure stability of the Student Evaluation of College Teaching Behaviors (SECTB), a 60-item, low inference type of student rating instrument designed to assess college teaching behaviors. While the original factor structure was based on the responses of both faculty and students, including…

Between August 1973 and September 1976, a study was conducted of the process of assessing faculty in Oregon's colleges and universities. The two major objectives were to describe and analyze the factors influencing tenure and promotion decisions, and to develop incentive models to positively influence the quality of instruction. A faculty…