A study of factors of effective teaching as perceived by students in a community-junior college

Abstract

In recent years, faculty evaluation has come into focus primarily because of students and their effort to gain a place in the power structure of the university and the move toward accountability at all levels of the public sector. Major studies by Gustad (47), in 1961 and 1966, reported that colleges and universities evaluated teaching performance through chairman evaluations, informal student opinion, classroom visits, colleague opinion, dean evaluations, systematic student evaluations, scholarly research and publication, and committee evaluation for the expressed purposes of faculty promotion, salary increases, tenure, and the improvement of teaching-