Faculty members in STEM report numerous motivators and barriers to adopting evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs), yet the degree to which these factors are associated with EBIP adoption in postsecondary chemistry courses is unclear. The role of departmental climate around teaching in driving or hindering EBIP adoption is particularly…

Course evaluation instruments (CEIs) are widespread, influential components of faculty professional development and evaluation processes. Given their importance to continuous instructional improvement and their weight in promotion, tenure, and other evaluation processes, it is critical that business schools and higher education institutions more…

Web-based student evaluations of clinical faculty were collected over an 8-year period. There were 19,881 medical student evaluations over the 8-year period for all clinical clerkships, representing a total of 952 faculty. Students used a 5-point Likert scale to rate the teaching effectiveness of faculty. Criterion-based methods and standard…

The USA has served as a beacon of hope for thousands of foreign students and academics with its diverse and superior opportunities created by a system of meritocracy unparalleled in the world. In keeping with other industries, academia is increasingly becoming a global village and foreign-born professors constitute a large proportion of university…

The authors espouse inquiry-based methods of faculty assessment that provide a supportive environment for the faculty member. Effective evaluations also require the study of institutional goals, classroom environments, administrative organization and operations, curricular content, student achievement and the impact of programs on state and…

This article describes a program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to provide faculty with an opportunity to undertake substantive peer review of a course. Suggestions for improving the implementation of peer review of teaching as well as some likely future directions for peer interactions are also included. (JM)

Four issues seem to be at the heart of improving the evaluation of college teaching: defining faculty roles and expectations, understanding teachers and teaching contexts, meeting the multiple demands placed on teaching evaluations and the need for better use of evaluation in faculty development. (JM)

The present study was designed to assess the effects of a combination of feedback and personal consultations using college student evaluations on faculty performance. Student evaluation feedback and personal consultations were conducted at least a semester before any follow-up data was gathered. The results indicate that providing computerized…

A 4-week Sequenced Peer Teaching program for experienced faculty members of Ohlone College (California) was designed to bring faculty together for the development and/or improvement of teaching. The program included the teaching of a sequence of assignments by individual participants to a class of peers. The teaching was video-taped and replayed…

Argues that faculty evaluation procedures undertaken to improve instruction need to be separate from those used to reward excellence. (SRT)

Argues that teaching portfolios are time consuming and have not been shown to improve college faculty teaching skills. Raises some unanswered questions concerning teaching portfolios and reviews what is known about effective teaching at the college level. Suggests that constructing the portfolio often becomes the focus instead of instructional…

Asserts that in order for teaching evaluation to encourage improvement, there must be a measure of all elements that make teaching what it is. Proposes a model that highlights the significance of conceptions, knowledge, and the context within which the instructional event takes place. Suggests activities and instruments that may assess teaching…

This study defines and describes effective teaching so that instructors can be helped to improve and so that graduate students can be better prepared for the teaching function of academic life. The means devised to accomplish this is a series of evaluations in the form of questionnaires that involved more than 1,600 students and faculty over the…

The second year (1969-70) of the Program with Developing Institutions (PWDI) emphasized working with faculty members rather than with administrators (as in the first year) in the areas of faculty development and instructional improvement. Fifty-three junior colleges participated in this program, financed under Title III of the Higher Education Act…

Attempts to define and enunciate the purposes of a process for the development of an acceptable faculty evaluation program. (Author/RK)