This study focused on department heads'/ chairs' perceptions of the appraisal interview (a face-to-face interpersonal communication event), assessment of the faculty member's role in the appraisal interview, and assessment of the academic administrator's role in the appraisal interview. The results indicate that approximately 20% of respondents…

A free-response method of data collection (questionnaires), in conjunction with nonmetric multidimensional scaling, produced results highly similar to those of a previous study, i.e., that an effective college teacher could be characterized in terms of "research,""teaching," and "service to the university." (Author/RC)

The purpose was to identify characteristics of the faculty and departments which had voluntarily initiated instructional innovations through the Educational Development Program (EDP). A profile of the participating faculty was developed and characteristics of 90 EDP project directors were compared with those of a random sample of 250 other faculty…

IN COOPERATION WITH THE COLLEGE'S STUDENT ASSOCIATION AND FACULTY, THE GROSSMONT COLLEGE CHAPTER OF THE STUDENT CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SURVEYED STUDENT OPINION OF FACULTY EFFECTIVENESS. THE SURVEY DID NOT INCLUDE THE DEPARTMENTS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND COUNSELING AND THE EVENING PROGRAM. INSTRUCTORS WERE RATED IN EIGHT AREAS--(1)…

IN HER 17TH YEAR OF SERVICE AT A JUNIOR COLLEGE OF ABOUT 2,800 STUDENTS, A PROFESSOR WAS SUSPENDED AND THEN DISMISSED. THE SITUATION LEADING TO THIS ACTION INCLUDED (1) A REDUCTION IN LOAD, ACCOMPANIED BY REDUCTION IN SALARY, (2) A TRANSFER FROM ONE DEPARTMENT TO ANOTHER, (3) CHARGES OF "CONTUMACIOUS" CONDUCT, (4) INTERPRETATIONS OF…

The literature on teaching evaluation has long recognized that it is simply not possible now, or perhaps ever, to isolate from among all the variables that are interacting the individual teacher's contribution to changes in the learner, many of which are complex, subtle, and may not be observable until much later in the student's life. Thus, other…

Presented in this paper is an outline of the policy at Evergreen State College concerning faculty evaluation, faculty reappointment or nonreappointment, and program review and institutional self-study. Within the policy is the belief that the principles governing academic freedom and faculty responsibility at Evergreen must apply to all members of…

This Mathematical Science Instructor Evaluation Form contains 35 questions broken down into five factors: Instructor Presentation, Interaction-Evaluation, Classroom Details, Student Motivation, and Course Information. The student responds to a statement by circling: strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree. The final three…

The major purpose of this study was to characterize effective teaching performance and provide a basis for the evaluation of teaching. Four surveys were conducted in which: (1) students described their best and worst teachers; (2) faculty described the teaching of colleagues they regarded as the best and worst instructors; (3) faculty described…

After a review of the literature of evaluations by students of instructors and courses, this paper discusses 3 different evaluation questionnaires given in successive years (1968 through 1970) at the University of Delaware. Each of these forms represented an attempt to make the ratings less susceptible to the "halo effect," which was…

Professor and student classroom verbal behaviors, coded with Ober's RCS, were related to anonymous student ratings on a reliable and validated form. The classroom process, even at the college level, is manipulable by the professor, and should influence student ratings of the professor. Twenty-six classrooms of undergraduate courses in one…

A successful evaluation or improvement of teaching program ought to develop after a careful consideration of the attitudes and perceptions of those most directly affected--namely students and faculty members. An understanding and awareness of the forces which control their actions on the intellectual-social-cultural environment of the university…

For tenure/promotion decisions involving forensic coaches, the author proposes that the effective coach should receive credit for the equivalent of at least one refereed published article. (PD)

Between January and April 2000, Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada piloted an anonymous online faculty-administered teaching assessment tool. Five instructors volunteered to participate, and 5 students from classes taught by each instructor joined them in focus groups, for a total of 30 focus group participants. The quantitative and…