Who are Better at Evaluating Faculty Teaching Peers or Students?
Journal Title: Psychology and Cognitive Sciences - Open Journal - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
In any Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System it is important to define the broad range of roles that faculty must play in order to be successful. It is also important to identify the sources of information necessary to evaluate faculty performance in their various roles. One of the roles that are always present in any comprehensive faculty evaluation system is that of Teaching. There are a plethora of articles and books on the most appropriate sources for evaluating this role such as Dean, Department Head, Peers, Students, Self, etc. Of these sources, students have received the greatest amount of attention over the past 50 or more years. For many of those concerned with the use of student ratings of faculty teaching, peer evaluation has been presented as the antidote. This typically manifests itself in the form of peers conducting classroom visitations and observations. When peers conduct classroom visitations and observations they typically represent a very limited sample of class meetings and are conducted without the benefit of a reliable and valid observational checklist. In addition, peers tend to judge the observed faculty member’s performance against their own personal standards, which may or may not be appropriate. Therefore, typical peer evaluation of classroom teaching, tends to yield unreliable and invalid data upon which to judge a particular faculty member’s teaching performance.
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Lawrence M. Aleamoni
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- DOI 10.17140/PCSOJ-3-e004
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Who are Better at Evaluating Faculty Teaching Peers or Students?
In any Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System it is important to define the broad range of roles that faculty must play in order to be successful. It is also important to identify the sources of information necessary to...