Helping Teachers Teach Well A New System for Measuring and Improving Teaching Effectiveness in Higher Education

by Pritchard, Robert D.; Watson, Margaret D.; Kelly, Karlease; Paquin, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780787939656
• ISBN10: 078793965X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-03
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

Helping Teachers Teach Well introduces faculty, administrators, and researchers to a new system for evaluating teaching effectiveness based on the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System, a successful evaluation process drawn from the field of organizational psychology. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the key literature on evaluation and progressing through a detailed examination of the new process, this book encourages faculty participation and acceptance of evaluations and explains in detail the techniques that will allow the successful measurement of group and individual productivity. Checklists, forms, and charts, coupled with the authors' discussion of how the approach works in educational institutions, guide the development of the specific tools needed to put the process into action and to make evaluation effective.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix	(2)
Preface	xi	(4)
The Authors	xv	(2)
Introduction: Measuring and Enhancing Teaching Effectiveness	xvii
PART ONE Issues in Teaching Evaluation	3	(66)
1. Searching for the Ideal: A Review of Teaching Evaluation Literature	3	(40)
2. Productivity Measurement and Enhancement: A New System	43	(26)
PART TWO Developing an Effective System	69	(160)
3. Phase One: Implementing a Student Evaluation System	69	(44)
4. Evaluating Results and Asking Tough Questions	113	(57)
5. Phase Two: Adding Peer Evaluation to the System	170	(24)
6. Drawing Conclusions and Making Recommendations	194	(10)
7. Doing Teaching Evaluation in Other Settings	204	(25)
Appendix A: Faculty Evaluation Questionnaire for Objectives and Indicators	229	(2)
Appendix B: Design Committee Questionnaires (TEC and Contingency Committees)	231	(4)
Appendix C: General Evaluation Questionnaire	235	(6)
Appendix D: Administrative Evaluation Questionnaire	241	(8)
Appendix E: Feedback Evaluation Questionnaire	249	(8)
References	257	(14)
Index	271