Faculty Evaluation
As part of the educational assessment process, faculty evaluation attempts to assess and quantify the effectiveness of teaching professionals. Turn to Faculty Focus for tips and techniques.
August 13, 2010
Guidelines for Effective Classroom Observations
A second edition of Nancy Chism’s Peer Review of Teaching is, in my opinion, the definitive resource on peer review. Besides providing excellent summaries of relevant research and translating those ... Read more »
April 15, 2010
Faculty Evaluations: An Alternative Approach Based on Classroom Observations
Department chairs and deans face many challenges in their roles. One of the most difficult is the evaluation of faculty regarding teaching effectiveness. This is particularly challenging for two reasons: ... Read more »
March 1, 2010
Electronic Faculty Portfolios Can Streamline Personnel Matters
Personnel review binders used for retention, promotion, and tenure decisions may go the way of the typewriter as electronic portfolio systems continue to gain ground as effective, paperless solutions. For ... Read more »
January 22, 2010
Course and Instructor Evaluations: Misconceptions and Realities
If evaluation sounds good in theory but feels bad in practice, it may be that you or others are operating under some common misconceptions. Misconception: Outcomes are the only things worth ... Read more »
January 20, 2010
Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls
Hiring, promotion, and tenure activities are full of risk and potential landmines. Poor hiring decisions are not only costly, but the hiring process itself opens the institution up to litigation ... Read more »
January 7, 2010
Two Ways to Make Student Feedback More Valuable
Unless they have a real problem with how the course was run, most students fill out end-of-course evaluations so quickly there's often very little valuable information in them. Here are ... Read more »
June 23, 2009
Creating a Faculty Investment and Reward Model
What obligations do faculty members have to their institutions beyond their disciplines and departments? It’s a question that is sure to get a lot of play as higher education institutions ... Read more »
May 22, 2009
Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Contracts: One School’s Approach
In 2005, Appalachian State University established three-quarter- and full-time non-tenure-track contracts with benefits for non-tenure-track faculty members who had been teaching at least three-quarter time for three years. The move ... Read more »
April 15, 2009
Faculty Collegiality: Q&A with Robert Cipriano
Collegiality—the ability of faculty members to get along with each other and contribute to the collective good—is a key component of success within the department and the higher education institution ... Read more »
February 25, 2009
How to Make Course Evaluations More Valuable
The major benefit any conscientious professor seeks in course evaluations is in gaining useful student feedback. Yet most rating instruments generate vague, unjustified student comments. Quantitative scales provide ambiguous statistics ... Read more »
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