This document discusses the creation of a faculty development program in Valencia Community College's Osceola Campus called Faculty to Faculty Connection. Part-time faculty makes up 48-55% of classes taught depending on the discipline, which is higher than the College's full time to part time ratio. The program's purpose is to address two concerns…

Instructor rankings for three alternative teaching performance measures were compared. The measures were an outcome measure (in this case, a test of economics knowledge), student evaluations of teaching (SET), and a weighted average of the two. For each performance measure, two alternative approaches to ranking were considered. One simply compared…

Comparative study of teachers at arts colleges and teachers at public and private secondary schools; recommendations are made. (SP)

Argues against mechanistic models of teacher evaluation and proposes an organic model based on Dewey's principles. Asserts that teaching, as an art, should be approached as experience and create a dynamic, ordered, aesthetic, and moral environment. Views the teacher's fundamental role as unchanged by technological advances. (WL)

Reports the findings of a study that collected data from 14 college and high school faculty in a self-instructional teaching analysis program: their perceptions of the usefulness of the approach, the materials used, and the time required to administer the program compared with similar services from a specialist. (Author/JD)

This paper examines teacher evaluation practices in leisure studies programs, noting the perceived effectiveness of rating instruments. Surveys of leisure studies professors nationwide indicated many institutions used evaluation instruments and processes that were not statistically validated; key decisions were often made on the basis of these…

Discusses faculty evaluation programs at 11 community colleges, focusing on procedures used, the frequency of evaluation, and areas evaluated. Indicates that although the 11 colleges used all of the main types of faculty evaluation procedures, substantive differences existed among the schools regarding frequency of use and instrument content. (MAB)

Studied attitudes of college faculty toward methods of formative evaluation of peers. Most of the faculty members participating, ranging from 10 to 82 at colleges in Iowa indicated that they would take part in classroom observation, videotaping, evaluation of course materials, and assessment of evaluation of the work of students as peer evaluation…

Suggests that becoming an expert teacher and judging teaching quality are complex and situational, exploring the use of a conceptual framework for analyzing eight teaching portfolios submitted by new university teachers as an assessment and qualification requirement. The study made a case for analyzing portfolios by asking whether teachers held…

Examines research on preparation and support of part-time faculty, analyzing four areas of support: institutional policies and practices, formal preparation programs, monitoring and evaluation systems, and formal and informal support measures in academic departments. Key processes and problems in each area are discussed, examining issues that must…

Several student and course characteristics were examined in relation to student ratings of instruction. Students at a major Canadian university completed the Universal Student Ratings of Instruction instrument at the end of every course over a three-year period, providing 371,131 student ratings. Analyses of between-group differences indicate that…

This study examined the factorial validity of scores on the newly developed Students' Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness Rating Scale (SETERS) through a series of confirmatory and multilevel structures. Conventional confirmatory factor analyses using the total covariance and pooled within-covariance matrices from two midwestern universities…

"Quackery" is a term commonly associated with the medical profession. It is often associated with those who are proponents of alternative medicines, the benefits of which are not based on science. In this article, it is asserted that quack methodologies have been infused into the teaching of marketing. Marketing education is not indicted with…

This paper describes the development and implementation of a teacher reward system based on merit that was used at the University of Nebraska. Explained are the organizational set-up of the program into operational groups and their responsibilities and the steps taken to establish interest and commitment in the project. Also discussed is the…

This study examined, via a 22-item questionnaire, the perceptual differences regarding teaching and research between 134 administrators and 196 faculty members of 6 Tennessee Board of Regents universities. Study results indicated that administrators' attitudes concerning teaching and research were different from those of faculty members on 15 of…