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Download full textCoburn, Louisa – 1984
Research on student evaluation of college teachers' performance is briefly summarized. Lawrence M. Aleamoni offers four arguments in favor of student ratings: (1) students are the main source of information about the educational environment; (2) students are the most logical evaluators of student satisfaction and effectiveness of course elements;…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Higher Education
Scriven, Michael – 1995
Student ratings of instruction are widely used as a basis for personnel decisions and faculty development recommendations. This digest discusses concerns about the validity of student ratings and presents a case for their use in teacher evaluation. There are several strong arguments for using student ratings to evaluate teachers. Students are in a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Data Collection, Decision Making
Paulsen, Michael B.; Feldman, Kenneth A. – 1995
Based on a longer report with the same title, this digest summarizes current efforts to increase the quality of college teaching. The report uses a model that views strategies for improving instruction as helping motivate individual faculty members to improve their teaching by actively changing (and maintaining) certain of their instructional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Environment, Feedback, Higher Education
Barrett, Joan – 1986
The public views teacher evaluation as a major problem in the school system today. State legislatures, aware of the concern, want to mandate more effective evaluation. Common methods for evaluating teachers have been ineffective, such as measurement tests of teacher characteristics, student achievement test scores, and rating of teachers'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Rifkin, Tronie – 1995
One of the main obstacles to effective faculty evaluation is the inability to reach consensus on the evaluation's intended purpose. On one hand, faculty evaluation has a formative purpose, supporting faculty development, growth, and self-improvement, while it also has a summative purpose in that it provides data to make personnel decisions on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Haskell, Robert E. – 1998
Despite a history of conflicting research on its reliability and validity, student evaluation of faculty (SEF) has typically not been viewed as an infringement on academic freedom; it has generally been taken for granted that SEF is appropriate and necessary. However, informal and reasoned analyses of the issue indicate that because SEF is used…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Evaluation Problems, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Evaluation
