Investigates student evaluations and focuses on higher education where current concerns with accountability have placed growing emphasis on the students' evaluations of their instructors. The author reviews the literature on student evaluation and discusses the merits of composite evaluation, which makes use of peer evaluations, administrative…

This 163-item annotated bibliography was compiled to provide access to research and discussions of student evaluation of teacher effectiveness. It was not limited to any educational level nor confined to any specific curriculum area. Two data bases were searched by computer employing three groups of subject terms--evaluation terms, teacher and…

An annotated bibliography on student evaluation of faculty performance, compiled from ERIC files dating between 1976 and 1978, is presented. Approximately 280 items are included. Although much of the annotation has been taken from the ERIC abstract, in some few cases the author has added additional comments, and in many cases the abstract has been…

Reviews a selection of the staff evaluation literature that appeared during the 1970s, covering problems in faculty evaluation; the student role; evaluation criteria, programs, and systems; and administrator evaluation. Includes a 47-item bibliography of ERIC documents and journal articles. (DMM)

An annotated bibliography on instructional evaluation and improvement is presented. The bibliography was compiled with an explicit bias toward the inclusion of articles that applied methodological techniques that are relatively uncommon in the instructional literature. (MLW)

Presents a conceptual framework and explores results and implications of practicum research published from 1975-1982. Studies (N=42) were found pertaining to practicum supervision and were divided into two categories: maximizing effectiveness of the practicum experience and specific techniques in practicum supervision. Practicum supervision was…

This annotated bibliography contains 602 references on teacher and administrator evaluation appearing, between May 1975 and September 1981, in: (1) Bibliographie du Quebec (Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec); (2) British Education Index (British Library); (3) Canadian Books in Print (University of Toronto Press); (4) Canadian Education Index; (5)…

This brief focuses on staff evaluation in the community college. An introductory section reviews the major concerns presented in the literature relative to implementing evaluation programs; determining specific objectives; rating scales for administrator evaluation; a four-step program for appraising a college president's performance; evaluation…

The 91 instruments in this bibliography include rating scales, coding systems, and inventories that are designed to determine the manner in which teachers approach the instruction of their classes, e.g. authoritarian vs. student centered, discovery oriented vs. expository, etc. Several of the tests are designed to give teachers feedback from their…

Traditional objections to student involvement and recent research supporting the validity of student comments are explored. The value of student comments depends upon asking appropriate questions: deciding what should be asked, what form the questions and results should take, and what use should be made of the information. (Author/MLW)

This literature review and annotated bibliography on student evaluations of teacher performance begins by reviewing the issues involved and the results of relevant research. The introductory section indicates that student evaluations of teaching effectiveness are commonly solicited in Ontario postsecondary institutions as diagnostic feedback to…

This bibliography presents approximately 300 citations of articles, books, and curriculum materials included in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system on the topic of evaluating art education. Most of the materials were published between 1969 and 1977. The document is presented in eight sections. Section I cites over 100 works…

The Formative Evaluation and Heuristic Research (FEHR) PRACTICUM, a computerized game, gives practical experience in such program evaluation tasks as problem definition, operationalizing objectives, field study, budgeting, proposal writing, data analysis, and interpretation--without the expense and time commitments required by most research. The…

During the course of investigations on such topics as the instructional styles, interaction patterns and personality characteristics of teachers, the organizational structure of schools, the technology of instruction, and the affective and cognitive growth of students, researchers have developed hundreds of psychological and educational…