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…

This annotated bibliography on student evaluation of faculty contains articles published between 1965 and 1970. The 107 articles are divided into the following categories: surveys; factor analytic surveys (usually authors of these studies address themselves to different questions than do authors of non-factor analytic surveys); experiments (in…

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…

Academicians, although they would prefer otherwise, perceive university reward systems to have a bias favoring academic journals. Additionally, they doubt whether administrators have good insight concerning the readership of either academic or trade journals. They do not believe administrators are concerned about the numbers of individuals exposed…

A survey of 265 business faculty members sought information about the faculty evaluation systems in use at their institutions, measured respondents' attitude toward the system, and collected basic information about the institution. Results indicate a strong correlation between type of evaluation system and faculty satisfaction or dissatisfaction.…

This paper deals with tenure and promotion in Canadian colleges and universities focusing on the history of judicial/arbitral review of college decision-making, confidentiality versus fairness, and the function of tenure and promotion in postsecondary institutions. (MT)

Examines the rates of faculty advancement during the formative years of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Found a significant relationship between faculty advancement and quality teaching, in addition to the usual relationship with length of service and publications. (JOW)

Offers a definition of scholarship and service that might be used by an industrial education department chairperson and/or faculty to evaluate productivity and identifies acceptable products for each criterion. (JOW)

The present research is a comparison of faculty from a large university with faculty from a small college in a rather homogeneous Southeastern region of the United States. (Author)