Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions

Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions

Over recent decades, the evaluation of teaching has undergone dramatic change. In accessible language and supportive detail, Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching provides not only a cogent overview of these changes but also reflects on current developments to present several useful strategies for implementing new tools and methods in the evaluation of teaching. The authors are all prominent educators who have performed seminal work in the improvement of teaching evaluation. Written for university and college administrators as well as faculty, this book is a complete guidebook that supplies a wealth of case studies, examples, tables, Web sites, and exhibits that further enhance its utility. It explains how to Gain genuine faculty and administrative support - Avoid common weaknesses in teaching evaluation by students, peers, and self - Evaluate teaching by examining student learning - Successfully combine disparate sources of data - Establish a climate conducive to evaluation - How to structure and use classroom visits, rating forms, electronic classroom assessment, and teaching portfolios Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching makes evident the compelling reasons why colleges and universities must institute fair teaching evaluation systems, and explains how to do so. With a notable focus on improving student learning, this book offers readers the kind of research-based and ready-to-use information required to foster truly effective and equitable teaching evaluation at their institutions. This book offers university and college administrators and faculty the kind of research-based and ready-to-use information required to foster truly effective and equitable teaching evaluation at their institutions. Seldin shares his years of extensive research on this topic, uniquely examining the transformation of evaluation trends over the past two decades, while pointing out the implications for the future. He and his noteworthy contributors not only cite the compelling reasons why colleges and universities must institute fair teaching evaluation systems, they also show readers how to do so. Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching is a complete guidebook, this volume offers a wide array of forms, case studies, web sites, tables, and examples. It is written for presidents, provosts, academic vice presidents, deans, department chairs, instructional development specialists, and faculty— the essential partners in improving teaching evaluation systems. Contents include: Current Practices—Good and Bad—Nationally - Student Ratings of Professors: Uses and Misuses - Using Feedback to Improve Teaching - Evaluating Teaching Through Peer Classroom Observation - Self-Evaluation: What Works? What Doesn't? - Post-Tenure Review: Evaluating Teaching - Evaluating Teaching Through Electronic Classroom Assessment - Using the World Wide Web to Improve Teaching Evaluation - Evaluating Teaching Through Portfolios - Administrative Courage to Evaluate the Complexities of Teaching - Building a Climate Conducive to Effective Teaching Evaluation - Building Successful Teaching Evaluation Programs - Summary and Recommendations for Evaluating Teaching This book offers university and college administrators and faculty the kind of research-based and ready-to-use information required to foster truly effective and equitable teaching evaluation at their institutions. Seldin shares his years of extensive research on this topic, uniquely examining the transformation of evaluation trends over the past two decades, while pointing out the implications for the future. He and his noteworthy contributors not only cite the compelling reasons why colleges and universities must institute fair teaching evaluation systems, they also show readers how to do so. Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching is a complete guidebook, this volume offers a wide array of forms, case studies, web sites, tables, and examples. It is written for presidents, provosts, academic vice presidents, deans, department chairs, instructional development specialists, and faculty― the essential partners in improving teaching evaluation systems. Contents include: Current Practices―Good and Bad―Nationally - Student Ratings of Professors: Uses and Misuses - Using Feedback to Improve Teaching - Evaluating Teaching Through Peer Classroom Observation - Self-Evaluation: What Works? What Doesn't? - Post-Tenure Review: Evaluating Teaching - Evaluating Teaching Through Electronic Classroom Assessment - Using the World Wide Web to Improve Teaching Evaluation - Evaluating Teaching Through Portfolios - Administrative Courage to Evaluate the Complexities of Teaching - Building a Climate Conducive to Effective Teaching Evaluation - Building Successful Teaching Evaluation Programs - Summary and Recommendations for Evaluating Teaching Peter Seldin is distinguished professor of management at pace University, Pleasantville, New York. A behavioral scientist, educator, author, and specialist in the