A Live AC for:
Faculty

Faculty Development Personnel

Academic Affairs Personnel

Academic Administrators

Department Chairs

Academic Deans

Distance Education Administrators/Staff

Continuing/Extension Education Personnel

You'll learn how to:
Identify what aspects of faculty teaching performance are most appropriately measured by student rating forms

Identify the salient factors that determine whether a specific student rating form is valid and reliable

Identify what student rating items CAN and SHOULD measure

Determine whether student rating items are well-written

Specify the characteristics of a well-designed response scale for student rating items

Determine if the response scale is appropriate to the items on the student rating form

Make more effective use of student rating information in enhancing professional growth and development

Apply strategies and techniques for administering student rating forms so as to increase the response rate

Identify the pro's and con's of using online student rating forms

Cite relevant research on issues concerning student ratings and their relation (if any) to class size, gender of the instructor, grades, topic being taught, etc

Meet the Presenter:
Raoul A. Arreola is currently Professor of Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and most recently served in the administrative position of Director of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning. Dr Arreola received his doctorate in Educational Psychology from Arizona State University in 1969. He also holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics and physical sciences. He has spent the last 35 years working primarily in the areas of instructional evaluation and development, faculty evaluation and development, and the use of technology in higher education.

Dr. Arreola has published in the areas of distance education, academic leadership, and faculty evaluation and development systems. His best-selling book Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System (2000, Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA) now in its second edition, is widely used in colleges and universities in designing faculty evaluation programs. He has served as a consultant to over 250 colleges and universities nationally and internationally as well as to several state and federal agencies in 1) designing and operating faculty evaluation and faculty development programs; 2) implementing instructional technology applications to teaching; 3) developing assessment strategies to meet accreditation requirements; and 4) designing and evaluating licensure examinations. For the last 18 years Dr. Arreola has conducted national workshops on faculty evaluation for thousands of faculty and administrators from over 450 colleges throughout the world.