Argues that teaching portfolios are time consuming and have not been shown to improve college faculty teaching skills. Raises some unanswered questions concerning teaching portfolios and reviews what is known about effective teaching at the college level. Suggests that constructing the portfolio often becomes the focus instead of instructional…

Chairs of 175 industrial and technology education programs indicated that 84.8% have a system of posttenure faculty review; nearly 30% said that over 10% of tenured faculty were performing below standard. A majority felt that posttenure review was marginally or not effective. The continuum of review procedures ranged from authoritarian to…

Provides an overview of state-level college faculty post-tenure review policies, describes their features, and speculates about the future of post-tenure review. Notes statements of Virginia's 1994 Commission on the Future of Higher Education that criticize the tenure tradition and Virginia state legislation requiring greater accountability by…

Asserts that in order for teaching evaluation to encourage improvement, there must be a measure of all elements that make teaching what it is. Proposes a model that highlights the significance of conceptions, knowledge, and the context within which the instructional event takes place. Suggests activities and instruments that may assess teaching…

In the corporate world, more and more companies have begun to use a more effective method of evaluating prospective employees. It is estimated that by 1996, approximately 20 to 30 percent of the nation's large companies had begun to use this more effective method known as behavioral-based interviewing (BI). This article explains what BI is and…

At the University of Nevada, Reno, lectureships developed out of a serious problem of staffing freshman composition. Almost all students take two semesters of freshman English, and in the late l970's, when the ability to staff these courses became severely limited, the new freshman sections were staffed by temporary faculty identified as…

This article proposed a teacher evaluation system based upon the assumption that teachers are leaders, and that teaching style is leadership style. A number of teacher evaluation questionnaires were examined and were found to be asking questions identical in nature to the two leadership dimensions of Fleishman's Supervisory Behavior Description…

Students' evaluations of a lesson were made on the same videotaped lesson after students were informed that the lesson was difficult or that it was easy, and after they were given a hard or easy content test. A two-way factorial design was employed with 92 undergraduate students, who were randomly assigned to conditions. After all students…

The basic evaluation model for faculty is one in which quantitative information about the means of teaching, research, and service are tied to salary increases. However, faculty evaluation in this context is usually trapped conceptually between questions of fairness and questions of evaluation. Means and ends are distorted. On the other hand, if…

Examines the potential of typical evaluation processes to enhance instructional performance. Finds them ill-suited to this purpose. Advocates a disclosure-free approach to evaluation. (Author)

The purpose was to identify characteristics of the faculty and departments which had voluntarily initiated instructional innovations through the Educational Development Program (EDP). A profile of the participating faculty was developed and characteristics of 90 EDP project directors were compared with those of a random sample of 250 other faculty…

An attack on the concept of educational accountability, arguing that teaching is not amenable to cost accounting and that the management concept of accountability, illogically applied to education, which is unproductive in a tangible sense, is a tyrany potentially damanging to society. (JT)

This study was undertaken to devise a standardized faculty evaluation instrument which could be used by all departments at Rhode Island Junior College and which could be easily filled out by students, colleagues, and the department chairpersons of the instructor being evaluated. In order to ascertain the preferences of the college community…

This document outlines the policy and review procedures of Schenectady County Community College on continuing and career appointments. The policy was adopted by the Board of Trustees to establish conditions under which staff members could, for the first time, receive appointments for more than one year. The policy applies to instructional staff…

This comprehensive analysis of course and teacher evaluation deals with the following topics: (1) a capsule history of course and teacher evaluation - where the ideas began and what trends have been established; (2) the right and worth of students' evaluation of courses and teachers, including how it relates to faculty academic freedom; and the…