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Branching Paths: A Novel Teacher Evaluation Model for Faculty Development

James P. Bavis and Ahn G. Nu Department of English, Purdue University

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Dr. Richard Teeth

Jan. 30, 2020

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Abstract

The main A large body of assessment literature suggests that students' evaluations of their teachers

paragraph of

the abstract (SETs) can fail to measure the construct of teaching in a variety of contexts. This can

should not be

indented. compromise faculty development efforts that rely on information from SETs. The disconnect

between SET results and faculty development efforts is exacerbated in educational contexts

By standard

that demand particular teaching skills that SETs do not value in proportion to their local

convention, abstracts do

importance (or do not measure at all). This paper responds to these challenges by proposing an not contain

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instrument for the assessment of teaching that allows institutional stakeholders to define the

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teaching construct in a way they determine to suit the local context. The main innovation of this another work

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instrument relative to traditional SETs is that it employs a branching "tree" structure populated abstract,

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(EBB) scale developed by Turner and Upshur for ESL writing assessment. The paper argues often suffice.

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that this structure can allow stakeholders to define the teaching construct by changing the order that some

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specific teaching skill. The paper concludes by outlining a pilot study that will examine the

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multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that correspond to Likert scale values.

Keywords: college teaching, student evaluations of teaching, scale development, EBB

scale, pedagogies, educational assessment, faculty development

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Branching Paths: A Novel Teacher Evaluation Model for Faculty Development

provide the location of

According to Theall (2017, p. 91), "Faculty evaluation and development cannot be

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considered separately ... evaluation without development is punitive, and development without

(in this case,

the page

evaluation is guesswork." As the practices that constitute modern programmatic faculty

number) in

the

development have evolved from their humble beginnings to become a commonplace feature of

parenthetical.

university life (Lewis, 1996), a variety of tactics to evaluate the proficiency of teaching faculty for

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diverse as peer observations, the development of teaching portfolios, and student evaluations.

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One such measure, the student evaluation of teacher (SET), has been virtually

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be traced to work at Purdue University in the 1920s (Remmers & Brandenburg, 1927), most

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known (e.g.,

modern histories of faculty development suggest that their rise to widespread popularity went "CIA").

hand-in-hand with the birth of modern faculty development programs in the 1970s, when universities began to adopt them in response to student protest movements criticizing mainstream university curricula and approaches to instruction (Gaff & Simpson, 1994; Lewis, 1996; McKeachie, 1996). By the mid-2000s, researchers had begun to characterize SETs in terms like "...the predominant measure of university teacher performance [...] worldwide"

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(Pounder, 2007, p. 178). Today, SETs play an important role in teacher assessment and faculty When listing

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development at most universities (Davis, 2009). Recent SET research practically takes the

citations in the same

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parenthetical, list them

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found at "almost every institution of higher education throughout the world" (2017, p. 130).

them with semicolons.

Darwin refers to them as "an established orthodoxy" and as a "venerated," "axiomatic"

institutional presence (2012, p. 733).

Moreover, SETs do not only help universities direct their faculty development efforts.

They have also come to occupy a place of considerable institutional importance for their role in

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personnel considerations, informing important decisions like hiring, firing, tenure, and promotion.

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using SETs as important factors in personnel decisions at roughly 86 percent. A 1991 survey of does not

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department chairs found 97% used student evaluations to assess teaching performance (US

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Department of Education). Since the mid-late 1990s, a general trend towards comprehensive

correspondin g reference

methods of teacher evaluation that include multiple forms of assessment has been observed

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still overwhelmingly common, though hard percentages are hard to come by, perhaps owing to Education."

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Race to the Top initiative, which awarded grants to K-12 institutions that adopted value-added

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models for teacher evaluation).

"al," rather than "et."

However, while SETs play a crucial role in faulty development and personnel decisions

for many education institutions, current approaches to SET administration are not as well-suited

to these purposes as they could be. This paper argues that a formative, empirical approach to

teacher evaluation developed in response to the demands of the local context is better-suited

for helping institutions improve their teachers. It proposes the Heavilon Evaluation of Teacher,

or HET, a new teacher assessment instrument that can strengthen current approaches to

faculty development by making them more responsive to teachers' local contexts. It also

proposes a pilot study that will clarify the differences between this new instrument and the

Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP) SET, a more traditional instrument used for similar

purposes. The results of this study will direct future efforts to refine the proposed instrument.

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Methods section, which follows, will propose a pilot study that compares the results of the

proposed instrument to the results of a traditional SET (and will also provide necessary

background information on both of these evaluations). The paper will conclude with a discussion

of how the results of the pilot study will inform future iterations of the proposed instrument and,

more broadly, how universities should argue for local development of assessments.

Literature Review Effective Teaching: A Contextual Construct

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The validity of the instrument this paper proposes is contingent on the idea that it is

possible to systematically measure a teacher's ability to teach. Indeed, the same could be said

for virtually all teacher evaluations. Yet despite the exceeding commonness of SETs and the

faculty development programs that depend on their input, there is little scholarly consensus on

precisely what constitutes "good" or "effective" teaching. It would be impossible to review the

entire history of the debate surrounding teaching effectiveness, owing to its sheer scope--such

a summary might need to begin with, for instance, Cicero and Quintilian. However, a cursory

overview of important recent developments (particularly those revealed in meta-analyses of

empirical studies of teaching) can help situate the instrument this paper proposes in relevant

academic conversations.

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Meta-analysis 1. One core assumption that undergirds many of these conversations is When

presenting

the notion that good teaching has effects that can be observed in terms of student achievement. decimal

fractions, put

A meta-analysis of 167 empirical studies that investigated the effects of various teaching factors a zero in

front of the

on student achievement (Kyriakides et al., 2013) supported the effectiveness of a set of

decimal if the quantity is

teaching factors that the authors group together under the label of the "dynamic model" of

something that can

teaching. Seven of the eight factors (Orientation, Structuring, Modeling, Questioning,

exceed one (like the

Assessment, Time Management, and Classroom as Learning Environment) corresponded to

number of standard

moderate average effect sizes (of between 0.34?0.41 standard deviations) in measures of

deviations here). Do not

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