This paper presents a case study of implementation of a new system of faculty teaching evaluation at a graduate school of business in Thailand. The research employed a non-experimental, longitudinal case study design in the analysis of student course evaluation data gathered over a period of 21 terms during a seven-year period. The report…

A survey instrument was developed to measure community college faculty and administrator views on the faculty evaluation process. Responses were then compared based on demographic characteristics such as primary area of instruction, supervisory responsibility, years of experience, and gender. Open-ended survey questions asked respondents to…

This study was designed to assess the attitude of academic staff in Nigerian tertiary educational institutions to student evaluation of instruction (SEI) and to find out the variable factors that influenced the expressed attitude of members of the academic staff, using Cross River State University as a case study. The study was a survey and so a…

Although many studies have examined techniques used to evaluate faculty performance, the literature has generally provided mixed results regarding the proper ways to measure teaching effectiveness. This paper provides the results of a survey of 1300 administrators and faculty of AACSB International accredited institutions. Respondents were asked…

This work examines the use of learner ratings of faculty performance in Polish higher institutions. It is concluded that other sources of information besides students' evaluations should be employed when evaluating teaching, such as: administrator and peer appraisals. The theoretical framework for this brief note is provided by the general idea of…

The present article examined the validity of public web-based teaching evaluations by comparing the ratings on RateMyProfessors.com for 126 professors at Lander University to the institutionally administered student evaluations of teaching and actual average assigned GPAs for these same professors. Easiness website ratings were significantly…

"Does the good researcher tend to be a good teacher, and vice versa?" University administrators contend that teaching and research are equally important, though students claim that researchers neglect teaching and professors claim that only their research efforts are rewarded. In this study, course and instructor evaluations were defined…

Judgment analysis was used to determine the policy by which judges rated 60 profiles of college teachers. While six of the judges seemed to be opposed to evaluation, the other judges generally rated classroom teaching and professional activities as the most important variables in effective teaching. (HMD)

Discusses staff evaluation in terms of how much can be expected of a teacher according to his experience. (Editor)

This issue of CURRENTS focuses on the selection and evaluation/retention of college faculty as 2 means of improving college teaching. The review of selected literature on hiring and evaluation practices includes summaries of successful and proposed criteria for measuring faculty performance and barriers to their use. Twenty-two sources document…

Because many recent articles on higher education have depicted the faculty member who publishes and works to obtain government support for his research as a poor instructor, it was decided to investigate the relationships between publication, success in obtaining government awards, and teaching effectiveness. Three groups of data were used. One…

Student evaluations, often ignored, are a valuable evaluative method for teachers. (PG)

Correlates student assessment of teaching effectiveness and a measure of learning, and concludes that if how much students learn is considered to be a major component of good teaching, it must be concluded that good teaching is not validly measured by student evaluations in their present form'' because the students who learned the most rated…