College Teacher Evaluation

Abstract

In an article entitled 'How to Evaluate thee Teacher — Let me Count the Ways', Haefele (1980) recounts twelve common methods of teacher evaluation. In his brief review he ranges through the standardised test approaches, systematic observational methods, paper and pencil instruments and situational tests but he concludes his survey of methods by coming down in favour of a goal-setting approach. He does so because a goal-setting approach is based on mutual trust, whereas other techniques rely on the establishment of judgemental, adversary relationships. It is this goal-oriented model of performance evaluation that it is proposed to examine in this paper. The precise orientation will be towards teachers in colleges of advanced education but there is no obvious reason to suppose that the discussion and critical review which follows could not be applied to other types of organisations and institutions.

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