Changing practices in evaluating teaching
Subtitle: a practical guide to improved faculty performance and promotion/tenure decisions
By: Peter Seldin and associates; foreword by Pat Hutchings.
Publisher: Anker Publishing
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bolton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: College teachers -- Rating of -- United States.; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty.
Description: Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching makes evident the compelling reasons why colleges and universities must institute fair teaching evaluation systems, and explains how to do so. With a notable focus on improving student learning, this book offers readers the kind of research-based and ready-to-use information required to foster truly effective and equitable teaching evaluation at their institutions.

Over recent decades, the evaluation of teaching has undergone dramatic change. In accessible language and supportive detail, Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching provides not only a cogent overview of these changes but also reflects on current developments to present several useful strategies for implementing new tools and methods in the evaluation of teaching. The authors are all prominent educators who have performed seminal work in the improvement of teaching evaluation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Current practices, good and bad, nationally / Peter Seldin; title: Student ratings of teaching : uses and misuses / William E. Cashin; title: Using student feedback to improve teaching / Michele Marincovich; title: Evaluating teaching through peer classroom observation / Deborah DeZure; title: Self-evaluation : what works? what doesn't? / Peter Seldin; title: Post-tenure review : evaluating teaching / Joseph C. Morreale; title: Evaluating teaching through electronic classroom assessment / Devorah A. Lieberman; title: Using the World Wide Web to improve teaching evaluation / Clement A. Seldin; title: Evaluating teaching through portfolios / John Zubizarreta; title: Administrative courage to evaluate the complexities of teaching / Joan DeGuire North; title: Building a climate conducive to effective teaching evaluation / Mary Lou Higgerson; title: Building successful teaching evaluation programs / Peter Seldin; title: Summary and recommendations for evaluating teaching / Peter Seldin.