Develops two models used as the basis for the proposed Teaching Assessment Program (TAP): a 4-stage gnometectonic (process of coming-to-know) model of teaching and a model of intellectual development. Describes experimental use of teacher and student report forms for the TAP. ("Part I: A Critical Retrospect" is EJ 116-234.) (JT)

In response to an increasing demand for faculty evaluation, focus is on elements of a successful evaluation program. It is suggested that faculty must be consulted in order to arrive at a mutually agreed upon structure, incorporating such areas as which sources should provide the information or data on which the evaluation will be based. Another…

Encompassing the five years from 1970 through 1974, this annotated bibliography represents a search of materials relating to the evaluation of college or university professors from the points of view of administrators, colleagues or peers, and students. Most of the information included is from the student point of view and is directed at teacher…

Three substudies of effects of different formats on student ratings of faculty teaching effectiveness were conducted. One substudy investigated Kinds of Keys, Agreement, Evaluation, and Needs Improvement. The second, NO TUP, (New Observation of Teaching of University Professor Rating Scale), investigated numbers of positive rating categories. The…

This study investigated student points of view in their ratings of specific courses and instructors by analyzing student responses within each of three classes separately, and then sought to generalize the results further by additional analyses, with 300 students randomly selected from 402 classes in five colleges. Different points of view were…

The present paper outlines two alternative strategies for evaluating teaching effectiveness. These are: (1) within-subject reversal designs, and (2) multiple baseline testing procedures. Each design is discussed in terms of its application to research problems in higher education. In reversal designs, the student is exposed to different teaching…

Student appraisal of faculty instructional competencies is commonplace. Although several logics account for sponsorship of student evaluation schemes, the ultimate product of student evaluation ought to be improved instruction. The purpose of this paper is to investigate relationships between student evaluating and better teaching. A mandatory…

This pamphlet presents two articles on student evaluation of instruction. The first article, "Research on Student Ratings of Teaching" by W. J. McKeachie, deals primarily with the reactions to his article in a recent AAUP Bulletin where he argued that systematic methods of collecting student evaluation of instruction should be used by faculty…

This study focused on the Instructor-Group Interaction Scale, formulated by Hildebrand, Wilson, and Dienst (1971), to explore the feasibility and usefulness of an instrument for recording instructor-group interaction in the college classroom. It was hypothesized that data from the scale would (a) provide the instructor with the pattern of…

A survey of 483 professors, three from each of 161 colleges and universities, shows that nearly 40 percent of the participants did not think that promotion policy was usually observed in practice. Many acknowledged a lack of professionalism in performance evaluations. (LBH)

Within three Liberal Arts departments, this study examined intercorrelations among college instructors' self ratings. Although instructors saw some relationship between their abilities and student outcomes, none of the correlations were especially large. The more instructors said that they enjoyed teaching, the more they estimated the amount of…

Graduate nurse educators could profit by adopting the teaching perspective of athletic coaches, which would result in focusing on students' learning histories to identify both strengths and weaknesses. The author compares aspects of coaching athletes with teaching nurses, recommending the coaches' methods of individual evaluation and feedback. (MF)

Various strategies are listed which an untenured English department faculty member must often employ in seeking a permanent place in his department. (Author/RM)

Study based on the premise that the individual teacher needs to understand both his self" and also the way he is perceived by his students. (Authors)