A model explaining various influences on general student opinions of faculty teaching performance was developed for a college in the University of North Dakota (UND). The goals were to (1) find a way to remove influences of improper criteria from general measures of teaching performance and (2) determine which differences in adjusted general…

Perspectives on the evaluation of college teaching are considered. Some of the conditions that are needed generally include the following: the existence of an evaluation system that has a process for evaluating research and service, a clear definition of the difference between the evaluation of worth and the evaluation of merit, and a separate…

Post-tenure faculty evaluation policies in all public four-year colleges and universities in Alabama were studied. A total of 420 tenured and nontenured full-time faculty and tenured and nontenured administrators were administered questionnaires. A total of 68.8 percent of administrator respondents revealed that they had written policies to…

Research that led to the development of an instrument and a program for collecting students' evaluations of college/university teaching is summarized. The current version of Students' Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ), which is appended, was developed at the University of Southern California (USC). (The first SEEQ was developed at the…

The use of peer evaluation in assessing teaching effectiveness is discussed and two techniques that utilize peer evaluation are explained in this paper. Peer evaluation is viewed as a comprehensive measure of teaching effectiveness and a necessary supplement to student evaluation of teacher performance. It is suggested that this method be carried…

An annotated bibliography on instructional evaluation and improvement is presented. The bibliography was compiled with an explicit bias toward the inclusion of articles that applied methodological techniques that are relatively uncommon in the instructional literature. (MLW)

Miami-Dade Community College, which wants to reward faculty members who devote themselves to teaching, intends to hire professors who want to teach and advise large minority populations and remedial classes. Characteristics of an excellent professor are identified. (MLW)

The teaching approaches and attitudes toward teaching of University of Queensland faculty rated superior under one rating system are examined, including professional and personal skills and attitudes such as subject area competence, ability to communicate knowledge in various classroom contexts, and commitment to facilitating learning in…

The first of two papers summarizes results of a survey of students (N=707) at Southwestern Oklahoma State University during Spring, 2000 on their opinion of faculty evaluations. A majority of students believed that faculty evaluations are important enough to read carefully and respond to accurately, are administered in a manner which guards…

What happens to student ratings of instruction after instructors are promoted from one professorial rank to another, and what happens when faculty exhaust all material incentives, acquiring both tenure and the highest academic rank? These questions are examined and instructor rating questionnaire is provided. (MLW)

Evaluation of instruction has become an important issue in higher education in the last two decades. Distinctions which help clarify the study of instructional assessment include: (1) formal versus informal evaluation; (2) summative versus formative evaluation; and (3) evaluation of a teacher versus evaluation of instruction. (JN)

A well-designed plan for the evaluation of teaching can serve purposes of both improving instruction and making administrative decisions about pay, rank, and tenure. Five approaches to the evaluation of teaching are presented, which are consistent with six principles derived from an analysis of current research and practice. (Author/MLW)

Drawing on experiences of a Concordia University (Ontario, Canada) task force in considering the teaching portfolio as an instructional evaluation tool, several issues are discussed: the place of teaching in an academic culture; how teaching is and should be evaluated; and possibilities for changing the status quo. Issues in implementation and…

Reviews research on student-written evaluation of college teaching performance. Arguments against such evaluations as valid indicators of performance are examined, and various background characteristics thought to influence student ratings are considered. Student and faculty reaction to use of ratings is discussed, and suggestions are made for…

A study investigated the applicability of 2 American instruments for student evaluation of teaching for university students in China (n=367). Results indicated high internal consistency; items were generally considered to be appropriate and to distinguish clearly between good and poor lecturers. Every item was important to some students. However,…