Evaluating, Improving, and Judging Faculty Performance in Two-Year Colleges

Charles Finley, Richard I. Miller, Candace S. Vancko

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN: 9780897896924
• eBook ISBN: 9780313001291
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

With nearly 48 percent of all U.S. undergraduates attending community and technical colleges, the two-year sector is an integral part of our nation's higher education system and a vital part of our nation's future. The need for effective faculty evaluation and professional development within two-year colleges stems partly from the size of this sector and also from the diversity of its program offerings and its student body. Miller and his co-authors bring timely, authoritative, and practical material to two audiences in this rapidly growing field of education: first, teachers who have permanent appointments but could use professional development and improvement; and, second, the already large and still growing number of part-time instructors who could use more evaluating and improving. This book is intended to be a direct assistance for these groups as well as to administrators who must make personal decisions. This professional book is for human resource managers and staff development officers of two-year colleges. A greater emphasis needs to be placed on human resource management, according to Miller and his co-authors, that will result in better personnel decision making.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Exhibits
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Assessing Your Institution's Climate for Evaluation and Development
• 2 Focus on Teaching
• 3 Improving Part-TimeTeaching
• 4 Designing and Implementing Faculty Evaluation Systems
• 5 Focus on Improving
• 6 Designing and Implementing Professional Improvement Systems
• 7 Malting Faculty Personnel Decisions
• 8 Moving into the Twenty-First Century
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: Recommended Improvements in Evaluation
• Appendix B: Teaching/Learning Values at Miami-Dade Community College
• Appendix C: Summary of Studies Used to Evaluate Teaching Performance
• Appendix D: Classroom Visitation Evaluation
• Appendix E: Self-Evaluation of Teaching
• Appendix F: Teaching Materials Evaluation
• Appendix G: Steps to Consider in Developing a Faculty Evaluation System
• Appendix H: Principles of Learning
• Appendix I: Annual Performance Review
• References
• Index