Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System
A Guide to Designing, Building, and Operating Large-Scale Faculty Evaluation Systems
JB - Anker
3. Edition July 2007
288 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This handbook provides a systematic, proven approach for developing
a fair and consistent faculty evaluation system that can be adapted
to the unique values, needs, missions, traditions, and overall
culture of any institution. Based on thirty-six years of research
and experience building and operating large-scale faculty
evaluation systems and consulting to thousands of college and
university personnel, the author has established an eight-step
process for building a comprehensive evaluation system. These steps
include
* Determining the faculty role model
* Determining the faculty role model parameter values
* Determining roles in the faculty role model
* Determining role component weights
* Determining appropriate sources of information
* Determining the source impact weights
* Determining how information should be gathered
* Completing the system by selecting or designing forms,
protocols, and rating scales
In this third edition, each step, including the definitions of
the various roles to be evaluated, has been expanded and enhanced
based on the experiences of many institutions that have followed
the procedure outlined in the book. The third edition also features
a new introduction; fresh research in the field; updated forms and
procedures; a new, detailed case study of an institution that
developed a Web-enabled, computer-supported system based on the
eight-step process; and a new body of work that defines the
professoriate as a meta-profession with a rubric for defining more
than twenty faculty skill sets.
Readers will learn how to generate and use an overall composite
rating in promotion, tenure, merit pay, and post-tenure review
decisions; they will also discover the issues in designing or
finding, using and cataloging student rating forms. Sample forms,
worksheets, models, and sample faculty evaluation manuals round out
this practical, user-friendly handbook for anyone developing a
faculty evaluation system.
psychology from Arizona State University in 1969, specializing in
educational research and measurement. He has taught in the areas of
statistics, educational psychology, personnel educational, and
educational leadership, and has held a number of faculty and
administrative positions involving assessment, strategic planning,
faculty evaluation , and faculty development. These positions
include director of the Office of Evaluation Services, associate
director of the Learning Systems Institute, and associate professor
of educational research and measurement at Florida State
University, director of the Center for Instructional Services and
research and professor of educational psychology at the University
of Memphis; and professor and chair of the Department of Education,
assistant dean for assessment and planning, director of educational
technology, and director of institutional research, assessment, and
planning at the University of Tennessee Health Service Center. Dr.
Arreola currently serves as director of assessment and professor of
pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the
University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Dr. Arreola has worked and published in the field of faculty
evaluation and development for 36 years and has served as a
consultant nationally and internationally to more than 250 colleges
and universities in designing and operating faculty evaluation and
development programs. He has also served as a consultant to the
U.S. Department of labor and the Florida House of Representatives
on designing and evaluating professional and occupational licensing
examination procedures. He is president of his own consulting firm,
the Center for Educational Development and Evaluation (CEDA), which
offers consulting and national workshops on developing and
assessing faculty performance. These workshops have been attended
by thousands of faculty and administrators from more than 500
college and universities.
In 2004 Dr. Arreola was presented with the McKeachie Career
Achievement Award by the Special Interest group of faculty teaching
Evaluation, and Development of the American Educational Research
Association for his contributions to the field of assessing and
developing faculty performance. In 2005 the American Educational
Research Association presented him with the prestigious
Interpretive Scholarship Award in recognition for his work in
developing the meta-profession model of the professoriate,
which underpins the processes described in this volume.
Raoul Arreola is married to Dr. Mona J. Arreola, associate director
of the cancer center of St. Jude Children's Research
hospital. They have four grown children and nine grandchildren (so
far).