College students critique their professors' teaching at RateMyProfessors.com, a web page where students anonymously rate their professors on Quality, Easiness, and Sexiness. Using the self-selected data from this public forum, we examine the relations between quality, easiness, and sexiness for 3190 professors at 25 universities. For faculty with…

This study used a multistage mixed-methods analysis to assess the content-related validity (i.e., item validity, sampling validity) and construct-related validity (i.e., substantive validity, structural validity, outcome validity, generalizability) of a teaching evaluation form (TEF) by examining students' perceptions of characteristics of…

"FACTC Focus" is a publication of Faculty Association of Community and Technical Colleges (FACTC) with the purpose of presenting diverse views on faculty issues. Included in this issue are: (1) Shooting In The Dark: Evaluating Distance Learning Instruction (Stephanie Delaney); (2) Trust Who? - Trust and Learning: Crafting a Conversation That…

Accountability reports, using both qualitative and quantitative measures of higher education effectiveness, are being mandated by many state legislatures. To date, not enough is known about the components, measurement, and uses of summary data concerning faculty productivity at the higher education level. There are no universally accepted…

Recent research has focused on the use of reflection to examine teaching practices of preservice and inservice teachers. Limited research, however, has been done by university science educators on their own practice. This study involved two university science educators collaboratively participating in such an activity with an inservice teacher. It…

Materials used in South Oklahoma City Junior College's faculty evaluation process are presented in these three booklets. First, the principles and guidelines applying to all areas of the faculty evaluation process are presented, including: (1) evaluation is dependent upon shared responsibility and rigorous professional judgments; (2) only agreed…

College faculty (n=171) from 16 Arkansas colleges were asked to make validity and cut score judgments about the test items for the 1982 Arkansas National Teacher Examination (NTE) study of 23 area examinations. Each of the 23 data collection panels began with a training session which included specific directions for the estimates of the judges.…

The development of the Student Evaluation of College Teaching Behaviors (SECTB) is described. The SECTB is an instrument that was empirically derived to reflect a broad conception of college instruction; to focus on specific teaching behaviors, and to permit students to rate only those items considered relevant. (Author/BB)

The twin issues of reliability (consistency) and validity (relevance) of student ratings of teacher performance, and the overall issues of generalizability, continue to arise in assessing the usefulness of this faculty evaluation technique. Recent literature addressed four basic questions regarding these issues as they pertain to two faculty…

Evaluating the effectiveness of college instruction is necessary and valuable in order to know which teaching practices should be continued. Although teachers usually are reluctant to be evaluated, some voluntarily seek methods of determining their classroom effectiveness. Four objective means of measurement are (1) introspection (questioning…

A theoretical model is presented of student needs-to-be-satisfied that is designed to meet three interrelated criteria: (1) that the needs be related to the goals or objectives of instructors and the institutions which employ them, (2) that the satisfaction of the needs be objectively measurable on the instructor, and (3) that the needs be…

CEQ-The Advisor ratings from 400 of 763 class sections from the spring of 1971 administration were divided into two groups of 200 sections each. The sections were separated into five groups depending on the proportion of students taking the class as a requirement. These proportions were as follows: more than 4/5 of the student enrollment was…

This document is a general presentation of the problems involved in obtaining student evaluation of university teaching, and of the types of decisions that must be made by those setting up the evaluation process. The presentation is illustrated by a description of the questionnaires and data processing methods employed in PATS (The Physics and…