Assessing Faculty Work: Enhancing Individual andInstitutional Performance
Buy Rights Online Buy Rights

Rights Contact Login For More Details

More About This Title Assessing Faculty Work: Enhancing Individual andInstitutional Performance

English

LARRY A. BRASKAMP is dean of the College of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago. JOHN C. ORY is director of the Office of Instructional Resources and associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

English

EXPANDING THE PURPOSES AND GOALS OF FACULTY ASSESSMENT.

The Current Status of Faculty Assessment.

A New Perspective on Faculty Assessment and Development.

SETTING EXPECTATIONS.

Defining Faculty Work.

Discussing Expectations.

COLLECTING AND ORGANIZING EVIDENCE.

Gathering Acceptable and Trustworthy Evidence.

Establishing the Credibility of the Evidence.

Constructing a Full Portrayal of Faculty Work.

USING EVIDENCE IN FACULTY ASSESSMENT.

Clarifying Appropriate Uses of Assessment Evidence.

Enhancing Assessment's Value to Individual Faculty Members.

Enhancing Institutional Uses.

METHODS OF COLLECTING EVIDENCE.

Written Appraisals.

Rating Scales and Checklists.

Interviews.

Observations and Videotaping.

Indicators of Eminence, Quality, and Impact.

Achievement and Outcome Measures.

Records and Portfolios.

English

"Faculty leaders and the administrators who evaluate faculty will profit from browsing through this extensive and rich synthesis of what we know about faculty assessment. Braskamp and Ory have pulled together in one manageable volume the results of decades of research and campus practice in this area." --Clara M. Lovett, president, Northern Arizona University
loading