Despite the movement in dentistry toward a system of professional peer review, dental educators appear highly resistant to evaluation by their colleagues. The University of Maryland Dental School has a comprehensive evaluation system involving evaluation of courses and instruction by students, program evaluations by individual departments, formal…

Describes an evaluation/promotion system developed at Pensacola Junior College whereby an anonymous faculty committee would independently evaluate each candidate's promotion documentation. After six years, very little agreement was found among the committee's evaluations. Evaluators worked from their own unique sets of criteria of effectiveness.…

Discusses the need for post-tenure faculty review to root out "dead wood" faculty and increase faculty accountability, focusing on the time frame for such reviews, who gets reviewed, and the intensity and ramifications of the review. Also notes criticisms of post-tenure reviews and the need to build community through self-regulation.…

This sourcebook is intended to help college administrators develop a strong peer review component for their faculty evaluation and development system. Part 1, an overview of peer review, provides arguments for peer review and briefly describes the process of establishing a peer review system. Chapter 1 reviews the tenets of effective evaluation of…

Ways to promote the evaluation of teaching performance by peers are considered. It is suggested that the evaluator's task be extended to include counseling and coaching the instructor being evaluated in order to help him/her overcome deficiencies in classroom performance. The counselor/evaluator should start by scheduling a short meeting with the…

A criterion for selecting sources of evidence to evaluate effective teaching is described. It is suggested that teaching effectiveness is not measured solely in terms of cognitive change in students but in the extent to which academics practice teaching in accordance with the moral dictates of the profession. In developing a teacher effectiveness…

Given the intensified importance of the promotion and tenure process, the question arises as to whether the faculty's peer reviewing role formally extends beyond the departmental level antecedent to administrative review. The typical structure and function for that role is discussed. (MLW)

The Supreme Court decision to let stand a lower-court ruling that allows a government agency to inspect confidential documents in a faculty tenure case is discussed. An appeal by Franklin and Marshall College on a decision granting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission access to tenure materials was declined. (MLW)

Describes a study which investigated relationships between community college faculty's evaluations by peers and students, revealing a high degree of consensus but higher ratings from peers than students. A related faculty survey revealed confidence in student evaluations and that student opinions influence teaching practices. (Author/DMM)

Examines the differences in summative and formative evaluation of college teaching, and suggests a new model for peer review of teaching that uses colleagues from other campuses (external review) for summative evaluation. Argues that traditional student evaluation and on-campus peer evaluation (internal review) discourage innovations in teaching…

Concerns about changing standards of scholarship prompted the University of Arizona to bar tenured professors no longer active in their disciplines, and not meeting current institutional standards for tenure, from evaluating colleagues for tenure and promotion. (MSE)

Peer evaluation and student evaluation of faculty are both imperfect, but when considered in combination with one another, are credible and valuable enough to provide the basis for reasonably accurate judgments. (MSE)

Describes the experiences of two-year college librarians in investigating and incorporating the use of peer review in their annual evaluations. States that the peer review process was seen as a way to broaden the scope of feedback for librarians. Examples of the peer review literature and the documents developed for use are included. (CW)

Describes how colleges are starting to consider online work in evaluations of professors; the key may be a growing movement for peer review of Web sites and online teaching materials. (EV)

To identify reasons for peer evaluation of college teaching being more honored in rhetoric than in practice, events that occurred on the campus of a prominent public research university are described and suggestions offered as to why peer evaluation is not often practiced. A Committee on Teaching Effectiveness was appointed in response to…