Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions (JB Anker) Book

Changing Practices in Evaluation Teaching 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. 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 by Peter Seldin, Pace University ? Student ratings of professors: Uses and misuses by William E. Cashin, Kansas State University ? Using feedback to improve teaching by Michele Marincovich, Stanford University ? Evaluating teaching through peer classroom observation by Deborah DeZure, Eastern Michigan University ? Self-evaluation: What works? What doesn?t? by Peter Seldin, Pace University ? Post-tenure review: Evaluating teaching by Joseph C. Morreale, Pace University ? Evaluating teaching through electronic classroom assessment by Devorah A. Lieberman, Portland State University ? Using the World Wide Web to improve the evaluation of teaching by Clement A. Seldin, University of Massachusetts ? Evaluating teaching through portfolios by John Zubizarreta, Columbia College ? Administrative courage to evaluate the complexities of teaching by Joan DeGuire North, University of Wisconsin ? Building a climate conducive to effective teaching evaluation by Mary Lou Higgerson, Southern Illinois University ? Building successful teaching evaluation programs by Peter Seldin, Pace University ? Summary and recommendations for evaluating teaching by Peter Seldin, Pace University Read More