PEER ASSESSMENT FORM
DRAFT
Department of Natural Sciences
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PEER EVALUATION FORM
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Name of Faculty being evaluated
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Date
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Chair, Peer Evaluation Committee
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Member, Peer Evaluation Committee
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Member, Peer Evaluation Committee
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Instructions
The primary purpose of colleague evaluation is to encourage the improvement of
teaching and enhancement of learning. Please give your best objective
evaluation of the faculty member’s performance in the designated categories.
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Peer Evaluation
Peer evaluation shall be a narrative guided by the department’s goals and
objectives and incorporating the activities list below. The narrative should
provide feedback to the faculty member on what activities exceeds expectations
and were faculty may improve. If you check Exceeds Expectations or Needs
Improvement, you must include a justification.
Teaching
Evidence of significant efforts to improve one’s teaching effectiveness (teaching
is a learnable skill), and evidence that the faculty member has addressed
potential problem areas indicated by the evaluations. For example, the use of
student evaluations, annual evaluation, or peer reviews assessments (such as
those offered by the Teaching and Learning Center). Evidence of advising and
mentoring, covering a broad range from advising undergraduate students on
research, curriculum, career choice, community service learning, to advising
graduate students on research and other issues. Documentation of teaching in
lower division, as well as in upper division and graduate courses, as appropriate.
Evidence of revised courses and contributions to departmental curriculum
development and revision.
To achieve Meets Expectation faculty should have evidence of teaching
effectiveness, maintenance of a level of student performance consistent with the
program’s knowledge based goals, play an active role in departmental
discussions and participate in activities regarding program development, and
continued faculty development to enhance teaching skills. To Exceed
Expectations, faculty should have evidence of consistently exhibiting a
leadership role in the above categories and exceptional efforts. Need
Improvement is warranted when faculty do not have evidence of meeting the
guidelines of the criterion for “meets expectations”.
Check One
Exceeds Expectations
Meets Expectations
Justification
Content Knowledge
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Needs Improvement
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Instructional Design and
Delivery
These activities include (but not limited to) development of lecture notes/slides, study
guides, problem-solving assignments/exercises/projects, teaching cases and notes, reading
assignments and discussion notes, research assignments, communications with students
via email and e-discussion forums, accessibility to course materials via Blackboard or
website, overseeing student group projects, availability to students through office hours
and qualitative feedback to students on tests, assignments, projects.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Course Management
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Faculty
Development/Collaboration
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
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Needs Improvement
Justification
Grantspersonship (teaching)
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Advisement
These activities include (but not limited to) availability to advisees during preregistration period, providing solutions to advisees problems, providing advising based
on advisees interest, communications with advisees and maintain records on student
advisement activities.
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Scholarly/Creative Activities
Faculty members are expected to engage in active research, which include the
creation, evaluation, dissemination and application of knowledge. Research
productivity is typically measured by the publication of articles in archival
journals, conference proceedings, books, invited lectures, patents, original
software, individual and block grants, research awards and honors. Faculty
members are expected to engage in scholarly activities which are typically
measured by the publication of articles in archival journals, conference
proceedings, books, invited lectures, conference participation such as,
symposiums, paper and poster presentations, discussant, etc. on local, regional,
national, or international level.
To achieve Meets Expectation faculty should have evidence of continued
recognition among one’s peers in the faculty member’s area of expertise;
recognition includes inside and outside the university and is of continued high
quality. To Exceed Expectations, faculty should have evidence of a consistent
record of research or creative activities that reveal significant achievement.
Need Improvement is warranted when the faculty fails to have evidence of not
being productive in their scholarly and creative activities at a level valued by the
department.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Discovery
These activities include manuscripts accepted for publications, data collection, analysis,
and writing manuscripts for current projects.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
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Needs Improvement
Justification
Proficiency
These activities include referred journal articles, scholarly books, invited papers, referred
proceedings, chapter contributions to textbooks within discipline, other referred
publication such as research monographs, in-house journal publications and book
revisions, participating in conference meetings as presenters, discussants, invited
colloquia, seminars and presentations and participating in exhibition/poster session.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Dissemination
These activities include manuscripts accepted for publications, data collection, analysis,
and writing manuscripts for current projects.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Grantspersonship
(scholarly/creative)
These activities include submitted competitive grant proposals to outside agencies and
foundations, submitted non-competitive grants to outside agencies and foundations,
receiving a grant and research reports to grant sponsors on progress.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Justification
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Needs Improvement
Other
(scholarly/creative)
These activities include written cases with instructional materials, instructional
software, and publicly available materials describing design and implementation of new
curricula or courses.
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Service
By way of service, faculty may perform service at several levels; the department,
college, university and community. There is no requirement that faculty have to
serve at every level. To achieve Meets Expectation faculty should serve on
committees and attend committee meetings. To meet Exceeds Expectation,
faculty should play an active role on committees and that these committees
produce a product that is valuable to the university. Needs Improvement is
warranted when faculty doesn’t serve on committees or too few committees or
doesn’t attend committee meetings.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Department
These activities include chair or active member of departmental committees, student
recruitment, faculty recruitment, business advisory board or strategic alliances
recruitment and participation in departmental meetings.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
College
These activities include chair or active member of college committees, college taskforce
members and participate in college meetings.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
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Needs Improvement
Justification
University
These activities include chair or active member of university committees, coordinate,
participate or attend university functions and events, consulting service to the university
and representing the university on formal assignments.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Community
These activities include elected office, service on community boards, service on
community service organizations, non-paid consulting in area of expertise, civic
volunteerism and fundraising for community projects.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Professional
These activities include editor, co-editor of referred journals, journal reviewer, proceeding
reviewer, keynote speaker, textbook reviewer, honors/awards such as best conference
paper, best track paper at conference and recognition by conference sponsor for
achievement in field.
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