Abstract
Issue
An issue of increasing importance to interior design faculty is the evaluation of creative scholarship for retention, promotion, and tenure.
Application
Administrators in higher education institutions could better support design educators if evaluation criteria, methods, and measures were better defined.
Goal
The goal was to develop evaluation materials for creative scholarship.
Description
The authors reviewed and refined the results of a workshop in which over 30 Midwest Regional DEC members developed or identified (1) a definition of creative scholarship, (2) evaluation criteria, (3) creative scholarship outcomes, (4) evaluation methods, and (5) measures of creative scholarship.
Conclusion
Use of these materials by educators and administrators will help establish the importance of creative scholarship to the interior design profession.
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