Assessing Faculty Work: Enhancing Individual and Institutional Performance (The Jossey-Bass higher & adult education series) - Hardcover

Braskamp, Larry A.; Ory, John C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555426352 ISBN 13: 9781555426354

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1994

Synopsis

A practical resource for fostering and assessing faculty achievement in all aspects of their work: teaching, research, and service. Shows that the assessment process can and must be tied to faculty development, and explains how collegial activity and continuous improvement are key to strong performance.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

"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 UniversityThis book is a practical resource for fostering and assessing faculty achievements in all aspects of their work: teaching, research, and service. Larry A. Braskamp and John C. Ory show that the assessment process can and must be tied to faculty development, and they explain how collegial activity and continuous improvement are important to strong performance.

From the Inside Flap

This book is a practical resource for fostering and assessing faculty achievements in all aspects of their work: teaching, research, and service. Larry A. Braskamp and John C. Ory show that the assessment process can and must be tied to faculty development, and they explain how collegial activity and continuous improvement are important to strong performance.The authors identify three major elements of faculty assessment and suggest five key goals of the assessment process. They show how multiple perspectives enhance the credibility of assessment and describe sources of evidence, including faculty members themselves, faculty colleagues, students, and experts. And they describe specific techniques that can be used to collect evidence and summaries of research on the effectiveness of each procedure.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555426352
• ISBN 13: 9781555426354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368