Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions

About the Author. About the Contributors. Foreword. Preface. 1. Current Practices-Good and Bad-Nationally (Peter Seldin). 2. Student Ratings of Professors: Uses and Misuses (William E. Cashin). 3. Using Feedback to Improve Teaching (Michele Marincovich). 4. Evaluating Teaching Through Peer Classroom Observation (Deborah DeZure). 5. Self-Evaluation: What Works? What Doesn't? (Peter Seldin). 6. Post-Tenure Review: Evaluating Teaching (Joseph C. Morreale). 7. Evaluating Teaching Through Electronic Classroom Assessment (Devorah A. Lieberman). 8. Using the World Wide Web to Improve Teaching Evaluation (Clement A. Seldin). 9. Evaluating Teaching Through Portfolios (John Zubizarreta). 10. Administrative Courage to Evaluate the Complexities of Teaching (Joan DeGuire North). 11. Building a Climate Conducive to Effective Teaching Evaluation (Mary Lou Higgerson). 12. Building Successful Teaching Evaluation Programs (Peter Seldin). 13. Summary and Recommendations for Evaluating Teaching (Peter Seldin). References. Index.