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.
Written for university and college administrators as well as faculty,
this book is a complete guidebook that supplies a wealth of case
studies, examples, tables, Web sites, and exhibits that further enhance
its utility. It explains how to
- Gain genuine faculty and administrative support
- Avoid common weaknesses in teaching evaluation by students, peers, and
self
- Evaluate teaching by examining student learning
- Successfully combine disparate sources of data
- Establish a climate conducive to evaluation
- How to structure and use classroom visits, rating forms, electronic
classroom assessment, and teaching portfolios
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.
