The most frequently used cooperative learning models feature five common components: heterogeneous teams, teammate interdependence, team interdependence, accountability, and activity appropriateness. These elements are explained to assist supervisors desiring to evaluate teachers using cooperative learning methods. Includes seven references. (MLH)

Evaluators should help teachers promote professional excellence, improve student learning, and realize classroom consistency. Consistent evaluators possess certain skills, including gathering factual data, observing objectively, gauging teachers' effectiveness at reinforcing lesson plans, establishing ameliorative guidelines through clinical…

Describes a study comparing the perceptions of teachers and administrators in northwest Ohio regarding the criteria considered important in the evaluation of secondary school teachers. Reports significant differences between teachers and administrators on nearly one-third of the items on the questionnaire, with disagreements occurring in a variety…

This paper examines the current academic and policy literatures concerning school evaluation in primary and secondary education within the OECD countries. First, it provides a typology of the existing systems of school evaluation across the OECD. It encompasses the diverse criteria and instruments commonly used to carry out schools evaluation, as…

The use of student evaluations of teaching (SETs) to assess teaching effectiveness remains controversial. Without clear guidelines regarding how to best document effective teaching, faculty members may wonder how to convincingly demonstrate teaching effectiveness in preparation for promotion and tenure review. Based on a study that examined the…

The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the issues of evaluation research as they apply to college teaching: approaches, goals, politics and purposes, and utilization. (Author/ND)

A discussion of the effect of student evaluation feedback on instructor. (Author)

A discussion of the effect of student evaluation feedback on instructor. (Author)

This volume contains an annotated bibliography of journal articles, books, documents (including some ERIC citations) and audiovisual materials regarding the behaviors of teachers which research has shown to be consistently associated with academic learning by pupils. The bibliography is organized around 19 criteria to be used for evaluating…

Teacher effectiveness research and its use in classroom observation have progressed substantially since the seventies; findings are now experimentally significant, cover a broad subject range, and can be generalized beyond low economic status groups and elementary school students. New teacher evaluation criteria and observation techniques have…

Student performance should be among the criteria used to evaluate teachers. Some advantages to comparing teachers on the basis of their students' learning are that such comparisons can provide (1) benchmarks by which to judge the validity of the criteria and measures of teaching effectiveness, (2) the evidence needed to match certain kinds of…

Evaluating teaching performance in a consistent, objective, and meaningful way is of particular importance in meeting today's demands for accountability. This report summarizes current practices of evaluating teacher performance in 362 school systems throughout the nation. The survey indicated that 97.9 percent of respondents conduct some type of…

Suggesting that the university faculty members assigned extra-curricular duties with forensics have been denied proper evaluation procedures, this paper argues for the need to apply professional evaluation standards to forensics directors. It proposes four separate components to be considered in developing such standards: (1) professional…

The Classroom Behavior Task, a ten-minute classroom simulation developed to measure abilities of potential urban teachers, was tested by comparing performance in the Task with on-the-job performance, using the Classroom Behavior Observation Form and a rating scale divided into "strength and sensitivity" components. Subjects of the study…

This review makes use of studies evaluating teacher education graduates against internal criteria, i.e., objectives specified in the program, and external criteria or evidence of pupil change. The Recommended Standards (see SP 003 720) of the AACTE indicate that such studies are necessary for meaningful evaluation. The literature search,…