Presents a selection of opinions on the bases for faculty evaluation. They range from a strongly-stated argument against over-emphasis on outside funding to a proposed system of performance quantifying performance. (JN)

Focuses on the annual faculty review by the department head. Suggests how this procedure can become more meaningful and includes a Performance Standards form. (PD)

Discusses the theoretical basis of teacher evaluation. (PF)

Academic institutions are caught in a position of needing continued commitment to assessment and yet dealing with strong faculty sentiment on the subject. This paper proposes that faculty assessment activity be re-conceptualized according to Ernest Boyer's (1990) "scholarship of teaching"--as a scholarly process whose products make a…

Teacher performance evaluations should be teaching learning centered; planned and continuous; cooperatively designed and implemented. (Author/AF)

One-hundred and four college students were randomly assigned to eight experimental conditions allowing them the power to hire and maintain faculty members. The greatest amount of leniency was shown toward the incumbent professor, regardless of her student-rated quality of teaching. (Author)

This paper reports on an investigation of the evaluation of teaching and research at Stanford University in the School of Humanities and Sciences. It was found that professional colleagues had far more influence on organizational rewards and penalties than did administrative superiors. Evaluations of research had far more influence than did…

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…

Departments, schools, and colleges within the University of Michigan differ widely in the procedures used to evaluate members of their faculties. In some instances student rating forms are used but practices differ as to the kind of information obtained and the weight given to these assessments. Each set of procedures is designed to serve local…

Of the various systems developed for student evaluation of course and instructor, the Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire (CEQ) has perhaps the most extensive reliability and validity data to support it as well as the most extensive norm data base. The CEQ is used to collect student attitudes towards a course and instructor and its purpose is…

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…

The main purposes of this pilot study were to obtain school principals' evaluations of recent Central Michigan University graduates and to determine how the graduates felt about their preparation and the professors who had taught them. Seventy-nine principals evaluated 252 teachers in urban, suburban, and rural schools in lower Michigan. The…

Professors and courses at Austin College were evaluated sociometrically by almost 90% of all full-time resident students. The 3 professors and courses they would recommend most as well as least to other students were listed. A 30% random sample of respondents was then interviewed by other students. Both the sociometric results and the results of…

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…