DESCRIPTORS Classroom Observation Techniques; *College

Forty faculty volunteers from 30 departments were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: "full process, " with teaching performance data collection, feedback, diagnosis, applied instructional improvement strategies and data re-collection; "diagnostic, " which excluded the applied improvement strategies; and "data collection only. " Full process and diagnostic condition faculty were assisted throughout by graduate student."teaching improvement specialists. " Late semester findings were that full process instructors considered the process to be effective, worth their time and effort, and appropriate for their peers. There were no across treatment differences in faculty attitudes or self-ratings of teaching skill improvement, need for improvement, or overall teaching competence. Nor were there consistent across treatment differences in their students ' attitudes or ratings of instructor teaching skill and improvement. (Author) Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encoantered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. * cgio c7r4