This publication, one of a series examining the issue of faculty workload and productivity, argues that the key to institutional change in higher education is the role of college faculty and offers recommendations for improving and measuring college faculty productivity. The paper begins with a conceptual model for discussing faculty productivity,…

This collection of materials describes various aspects of Santa Fe Community College's (SFCC's) faculty and staff development program. Part 1 explains the philosophy that underpins staff development at SFCC; the planning, programming, information dissemination, and evaluation phases of staff development; and the use of professional development…

There are two purposes for this study: first, to examine the relationship between college students' achievement and their ratings of instructors; second, to validate the two selected evaluation instruments that were designed specially for assessing teaching performance at the higher education level. Two evaluation inventories were selected for…

The reliability of the two most widely used course evaluation instruments at Indiana University was examined. The 38-item Form A, a modification of a course-evaluation instrument reported by Hildebrand and Wilson, at the University of California at Davis, asked students to rate instructors on a seven-point scale, from excellent to poor. The…

Faculty of the education department of a midwestern university were rated as teachers by both students and peers, and ranked by peers as to their effectiveness in service and research. Student ratings were gathered from three questions on The Student Description of Teaching form, which concerned assessment of the teacher, the is appended. Access…

It is suggested that controversy concerning faculty productivity assessment and development is an outcome of different conceptions or frames of reference: the romanticist is far more likely to perceive and relate to the social aspects, while the classicist is much more aware of and attuned to the technical aspects. Factors affecting productivity…

The question "what is good teaching" is answered variously by those that have a stake in the quality of undergraduate teaching. Students define good teaching in terms of the quality of their learning experience. Faculty define it in terms of learning outcomes. Administrators focus on efficiency, while members of the community focus on…

The major problem faced by those who would evaluate teaching has been the difficulty of defining teaching effectiveness or establishing criteria for measurement. Traditionally, evaluations have focused on teacher performance in the classroom or on teacher traits as the criteria of effectiveness. However, previous studies have indicated that…

The development of faculty individual activity/performance agreements, a systematic set of procedures through which the goals or objectives of an institution are expressed as specific behaviors of an individual teacher, are discussed. These types of agreements also have been called growth plans or performance contracts. University objectives and…

THIS REPORT PRESENTS THREE CASE STUDIES OF DIFFICULT CAMPUS PERSONNEL PROBLEMS TO BE CONSIDERED FROM THE POINTS OF VIEW OF FACULTY, DEPARTMENT HEADS, AND ADMINISTRATORS. THE DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO THESE SITUATIONS OCCUPIED PART OF THE WEEK. OTHER TOPICS COVERED WERE THE VARIOUS BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION (INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL, AND…

A 16-item Q-sort evaluation of teaching was administered to 2,784 graduate and undergraduate students in education at a state university. Four subscales based on Spady's (1974) teacher competencies model, subject expertise, pedagogical expertise, stimulation and empathy were obtained from two pilot studies. Test-retest reliability and construct…

The study determined the influence of students' values and adult education attitudes on their evaluation of faculty. Eighty-four adult education graduate students, enrolled in four sections of an adult learning theory course taught by three different instructors, completed an evaluation form, a value survey, and an adult education attitude scale…

This is a report of the development of a Faculty-Course Questionnaire (FCQ) evaluation instrument at the University of Colorado. The evaluation process is computer based and is similar in several ways to that used for processing and reporting the results of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank at the University of Colorado. A computerized feedback…

This study examined whether student attitude toward instructors was related to subsequent behavior such as the behavioral intention to take further courses with that instructor, and whether social desirability affected this relationship. Students completed instructor rating and social desirability scales. Principal components analysis and varimax…

Evaluations of one-hundred seventy-two courses taught at Millard Fillmore College (SUNY, Buffalo) during the 1971-72 academic year are presented. Students enrolled in these courses provided the ratings. A standard format is used to present item by item responses of the students to the 43 questions in the survey form for each course. The first six…