Posts Tagged ‘faculty evaluations’
August 13 - Guidelines for Effective Classroom Observations
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Evaluation
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 findings into concrete guidelines, the book is packed with resources including checklists, review questions, and instruments relevant to the assessment of multiple aspects of teaching
April 15 - Faculty Evaluations: An Alternative Approach Based on Classroom Observations
By: Michael B. Gilbert, PhD, and Alicia Haley in Faculty Evaluation
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: (1) lack of formal preparation for instructors concerning teaching, and (2) limited choice of evaluation tools. One tool, classroom observation, can help address both of these issues and provide an objective measure of teaching effectiveness.
January 22 - Course and Instructor Evaluations: Misconceptions and Realities
By: Patti Shank, PhD, CPT in Faculty Evaluation
If evaluation sounds good in theory but feels bad in practice, it may be that you or others are operating under some common misconceptions.
January 20 - Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Evaluation
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 if everyone on the hiring committee is not trained properly.
June 10 - Faculty Evaluations: Those Hurtful Student Comments
By: Glenn Hartz, PhD in Teaching Careers
At most places now, students are given the opportunity to evaluate instructors at the end of each class. Along with standardized items, students are invited to offer open-ended narrative comments on the course and instructor. Sometimes the comments are nice; sometimes negative but constructive; sometimes negative and destructive.
November 13 - Answers for Those Afraid to Take a Hit on College Student Ratings
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Evaluation
At a workshop on learner-centered teaching, a participant told us that philosophically she couldn’t agree more with the need to make students more responsible for their own learning, but she couldn’t go there because her ratings would take a hit. I assumed this meant she was a new faculty member and under scrutiny for tenure. [...]
