Reports on a survey of mass communication department administrators (Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication members). Finds that journalism and mass communication faculty are under pressure to conduct and publish research and that traditional academic research and publication are preferred in evaluating faculty members for…

Evaluation of faculty by executive program participants provides a useful teaching-effectiveness measure. Ratings of individual teaching characteristics can help identify the relative weights of certain characteristics, thereby enabling faculty to concentrate improvement efforts on characteristics yielding the biggest payoff. Faculty effectiveness…

How administrators viewed faculty evaluation was studied through a survey of 199 deans and vice presidents (representing a 55.7 percent response rate to a mailed questionnaire) from two-year colleges. Posttenure evaluation existed in about 70 percent of responding institutions. There was ambivalence about the overall effectiveness of the…

A national survey of higher education special education faculty (n=243) found respondents to be involved in formal support programs and other activities for college students with disabilities on a widespread basis but with minimal time commitments. Results suggest realigning institutional reward systems to address faculty interests and campus…

Faculty ratings by academic staff and students in a new Australian higher education institution were compared on 21 criteria of lecturing performance. Faculty placed more emphasis on a range of performance criteria, while students stressed pace of presentation. Analysis revealed differences in the two groups' schematic models. Both agree that the…

Bibliometric studies were conducted on research performance at three Flemish universities: University of Ghent, Catholic University of Leuven, and University of Antwerp. This article outlines the methodology, presents the outcomes for the faculties of medicine, science, and pharmaceutical science; and focuses on the reactions of department…

Examines the influence of student perceptions of faculty teaching skills on social integration, subsequent institutional commitment, and student departure decisions. Using path analysis to consider this link, the findings demonstrate a significant influence of faculty teaching skills on student persistence. Theoretical and practical implications…

Investigated the relationship between gender and gender role of students and their "best" university professors. Surveys of Canadian college students indicated that there was a strong relationship between students' gender and gender role and the gender and perceived gender role of their best instructors. Masculinity was valued more by…

This study investigated how scholarship was viewed by 16 faculty members with varying years of experience and publication rates. In-depth interviews were conducted with randomly selected faculty from four departments within the school of education. The study found that faculty members with lower rates of publication indicated that the current view…

This article examines first discusses the three components of clinical supervision: (1) the planning conference; (2) the six steps of observation; and (3) the meeting with the teacher to analyze and interpret data as well as to reach decisions about alternatives, changes, and resolutions for future efforts by the teacher. Four approaches involving…

A guide to understanding and improving faculty evaluation procedures at all types of colleges and universities is presented. The causes of today's crisis in higher education and survival strategies are reviewed, and the search for solvency is related to major changes in assessing faculty performance. The proliferation of court challenges to…

Researchers often claim validity for student ratings after finding a positive ratings/achievement correlation. This allegedly shows that ratings identify teachers who promote learning. But if students are not randomly assigned to classes, or if the correlation is not computed across classmeans, the correlation may result instead from a student…

Using behavioral rating forms, college professors were covertly rated each day by pairs of students ostensibly enrolled in their classes. On specified days pairs of faculty observers introduced themselves to the instructor and rated him using the same forms. The purpose was to determine whether changes occurred in the instructor's behavior as a…

In order to determine whether student evaluation of faculty performance is related to the grade received by the student, a study was conducted in a large lecture class at William Rainey Harper College (Illinois). Of 300 students, 75 were systematically selected for the sample. The students were asked to list all courses for which they were…

Student course evaluations are used at New College, Hofstra University as one of the tools to evaluate the effectiveness of New College courses and instructors. This report summarizes all aspects of the evaluations that were completed during 1974-75. The report: (1) summarizes the procedures used in administering the evaluations; (2) describes the…