TEACHER EVALUATION: TOWARD IMPROVING INSTRUCTION

This review of documents on junior college teacher evaluation is concerned with guidelines and nrinciples for evaluation, criteria for judging instructor effectiveness, selection of suitable evaluators, and the administration of effective methods of evaluation. Three approaches to instructor evaluation are considered: student evaluation by opinionnaire, instructor self-appraisal, and team evaluation involving both instructor and administrator. The third technique, basing evaluation on student attainment of learning objectives, is most directly relevant to the purpose of evaluation, which is to improve instruction. (MS) t