Expresses reservations about the model for assessing creative activities in evaluating teachers for promotion. (PD)

Evidence strongly indicates that students can reliably evaluate teachers and that many teachers actually welcome constructive student criticism. (Author/JN)

It is hoped that this descriptive study will provide those interested in this problem with perspectives and insights which will help improve their own faculty appraisal methods. (Author)

In 1983, 26 states have statutes or regulations that require teachers to be evaluated, and 22 of these states also require administrators to be evaluated. (MLF)

Offers a model to examine the phenomenon of teaching as a transaction. Seeks to refine the distinctions between transactions which are complete upon execution and those which must await a qualitative judgement of some performed act for their completion. (DAB)

Affirmative and negative positions on the resolution were presented in a debate at the 1982 Association for Communication Administration Seminar. Questions were discussed that are basic to an adequate evaluation of the work of directors in colleges and universities. (PD)

Background: One of the major problems that confronts most educational systems concerns the need for developing a valid personnel evaluation system based on a strong theoretical framework. Unless the criteria for evaluating teachers emerge from tested theories on teacher and school effectiveness, evaluators cannot readily be accountable for how…

A study investigating the degree of agreement between teacher evaluators using a standard set of evaluation criteria and evaluation methods examines the test reliability of the Classroom Procedures Assessment Instrument, the Interpersonal Skills Assessment Instrument, and the Teaching Plans and Materials Assessment Instrument. Two statistical…

A test was made to determine the impact of positive or negative expectations on individuals conducting formal observation of teachers in the classroom for the purpose of evaluation. Two groups of graduate students who were receiving training in classroom observation viewed a video tape of a teacher instructing her class. Group one was given the…

The key to tenure is evaluation; this paper is the result of dissatisfaction with the basic pattern of evaluation that prevails throughout California. The present Quality Control Model of Faculty Development is widespread, deeply entrenched, and grounded on assumptions and premises that are limited, obsolete, and contrary to the interests of…

Criteria for measuring teacher effectiveness include the prognostic type, teacher observation, student achievement, and communication variables. A paradigm based on communication variables consists of: (a) Discriminate observable communication climate variables (devise method of observing and measuring communication variables); and (b) Determine…

This is a review of the literature surrounding the development of techniques for, and changes in professional attitudes toward, the evaluation of community college faculty in their instructional role. Discussion focuses on the purpose, criteria, and process of evaluation. In discussing the purposes of evaluation, the author deals with teacher…

This document is divided into three sections: a rationale and plan for faculty evaluation, professional data outline, and criterion for faculty evaluation. The first section develops a rationale for evaluation and indicates three levels of assessing performance: proficiency, competence and incompetence. The professional data outline indicates…