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Home/Faculty Evaluation/Toolkit for Conversations & Considerations about Faculty Evaluation

Toolkit for Conversations & Considerations about Faculty Evaluation

This Toolkit contains two parts: Understanding Faculty Evaluation and Improving Faculty Evaluation. Please explore the Toolkit, and adopt or adapt any resources to the specific needs and cultures of your campus.

Understanding Faculty Evaluation

The two sections below provide background, principles of good practice, and key areas of concern in faculty evaluation.

An Introduction to Effective Faculty Evaluation

A brief overview, guiding principles, and important considerations for peer evaluation of faculty

Key Areas of Inconsistency & Concern in Faculty Evaluation

Four areas of inconsistency and concern resulting from a review of official documents and discussions with faculty and administrative leaders across a dozen ACS schools


Improving Faculty Evaluation

The sections below offer guidance and tools for aligning your faculty evaluation processes with your institution’s specific mission, strategic goals, values, and commitments.

Aligning Faculty Evaluation Processes with Institutional Values

Guidance for institutions to align their faculty evaluation values, processes, and products with their institutional values

Interrupting Bias in Peer Evaluation of Teaching (PET)

A ready-to-implement workshop to help peer evaluators recognize and interrupt bias when evaluating a peer’s teaching

Addressing Hidden Workloads

A review of how hidden workloads impact faculty careers and recommendations for surfacing, acknowledging, and valuing invisible labor

Revisiting Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs)

Key concerns with student evaluations of teaching (SETs) and ready-to-implement workshops for reviewing an existing SET or developing a new one

Complementing Student Evaluations with Additional Measures of Teaching

Support for complementing student evaluations of teaching (SETs) by using multiple measures of teaching effectiveness

Handling Negative Evaluations & Exit Interviews

Strategies for handling negative faculty evaluations for pre-tenure and tenured faculty

Preparing Faculty to Be Evaluated

Customizable workshops to support faculty members who are being evaluated


About this Project

This Faculty Evaluation Toolkit was developed through a collaboration of 14 of the 16 ACS campuses, was guided by the Associated Colleges of the South, and was funded through a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. To learn more about who was involved and the process for developing the Toolkit, click here.

References

View the bibliography for developing this Toolkit.

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