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July 3, 2025
Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions
- Author
- Seldin, Peter
- Publisher
- Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
- ISBN
- 1882982282
- Table of Contents
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ch. 1 Current practices—good and bad—nationally
by Peter Seldin, Pace University
ch. 2 Student ratings of professors: Uses and misuses by William E. Cashin, Kansas State University
ch. 3 Using feedback to improve teaching by Michele Marincovich, Stanford University
ch. 4 Evaluating teaching through peer classroom observation by Deborah DeZure, Eastern Michigan University
ch. 5 Self-evaluation: What works? What doesn’t? by Peter Seldin, Pace University
ch. 6 Post-tenure review: Evaluating teaching by Joseph C. Morreale, Pace University
ch. 7 Evaluating teaching through electronic classroom assessment by Devorah A. Lieberman, Portland State University
ch. 8 Using the World Wide Web to improve the evaluation of teaching by Clement A. Seldin, University of Massachusetts
ch. 9 Evaluating teaching through portfolios by John Zubizarreta, Columbia College
ch. 10 Administrative courage to evaluate the complexities of teaching by Joan DeGuire North, University of Wisconsin
ch. 11 Building a climate conducive to effective teaching evaluation by Mary Lou Higgerson, Southern Illinois University
ch. 12 Building successful teaching evaluation programs by Peter Seldin, Pace University
ch. 13 Summary and recommendations for evaluating teaching by Peter Seldin, Pace University
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. (From the Publisher)
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. (From the Publisher)