When faculty evaluation systems are proposed, students, faculty, and administrators often think only of questionnaires and assignment of data-processing tasks. Much more must be considered, including balancing the needs of all constituencies, designing student-rating forms and administration procedures, and the treatment and uses of the…

Those who develop and use student faculty rating systems have an obligation to make them support good practice. Effectively communicating evaluation results to higher education policymakers includes helping them understand system goals and what is needed to achieve them. Training information users in the skills of using the information is…

Multidimensional rating forms used for college student evaluation of faculty elicit information that can be used to evaluate the dimensions of instruction either separately or globally. Portions of the information may be useful for formative evaluation, but global items are best for making personnel decisions. (MSE)