Instructor Competencies | Teaching Evaluation and Teaching Portfolios

Instructor Competencies

Competencies are skills and practices an instructor needs to be successful. They include, but are not limited to, minimum academic credential, motivation to teach, sensitivity, and attention to details.

Ethical Principles in University Teaching
by Harry Murray, Eileen Gillese, Madeline Lennon, Paul Mercer, and Marilyn Robinson. A guide for teaching responsibly in higher education. As they note in the article, this is not a set of rules, but rather principles that should be taken into account in the higher education teaching setting. 

Asynchronous Online Learning Instructor Competencies
An overview on how to maximize learning potential in online instruction. Potential barriers within the online learning environment are noted as are remedies to these barriers. 

Individual Development Educational Assessment - Kansas State University
Lists links to short papers that discuss faculty evaluation and development. 

Student's Perspectives On Effective Teaching - Texas A & M University Measurement and Research Services
Reports the results of various studies on first year student at Texas A & M, first year expectations, and student's perspectives on effective teaching. 

Eastern New Mexico University's DATAWave
The DATAWave is a locally developed newsletter highlighting outcomes assessment and institutional effectiveness here at Eastern New Mexico University. There are more than forty editions in six volumes (Spring 1995 through Spring 2002) covering topics on the Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency, College Outcomes Measures Program, Cooperative Institutional Research Project, Student Satisfaction Inventory, local measures, and other information.

Class Assessment Techniques Web site
This website is a source for various class assessment techniques. It also provides an overview of these assessment techniques as well as guides for use of these techniques.  

Assessment of Teaching Methods
"Classroom Research/Classroom Assessment Techniques" Bibliography of TRC Resources. "Evaluation of Teaching" Bibliography of TRC Resources.

AdjunctNation
This website includes textbooks, job searches, and news for adjunct faculty in North America.

Teaching Evaluation and Teaching Portfolios

Teaching evaluation is a process of identifying what abilities, skills and attitudes an individual brings to a class setting, and how effective that individual is. It is based on self-reports and student ratings. A teaching portfolio is a documentation of an instructor's progress and achievement over time.

Braskamp, L. A. & Ory, J. C. (1994). Assessing faculty work: Enhancing individual and institutional performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Robinson, J. (1993). Faculty orientations toward teaching and the use of teaching portfolios for evaluating and improving university-level instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Seldin, P., & Associates (1993). Successful use of teaching portfolios. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company.

Vavrus, L.G., & Collins, A. (1991). Portfolio documentation and assessment center exercises: A marriage made for teacher assessment. Teacher Education Quarterly, 3(2), 12-29.

Winograd, P., & Jones, D.L. (1993). The use of portfolios in performance assessment. Portfolio News, 4(4), 1-13.