Peer Evaluation (the arts)
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).
Teaching engages in specific interactions between faculty members and students
to facilitate student learning. Depending on the faculty’s area of expertise, the
below categories are components of the teaching role: to recognize a faculty’s
knowledge and skills; interactive and technical skills which promote learning;
organizational skills involved in maintaining a classroom or non-classroom
course; and any other intentional interactions between the faculty member and
students which is significant, but not listed on the evaluation form.
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
Justification
Content Knowledge
Meets Expectations
Needs Improvement
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Instructional Design and
Delivery
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Course Management
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Faculty
Development/Collaboration
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Justification
Grantspersonship (teaching)
Needs Improvement
Scholarly/Creative Activities
Faculty members are expected to engage in research (serious inquiry or
examination which results in the creation, evaluation, dissemination and
application of knowledge). Creative activities include bringing into existence the
production and design of work of art and the dissemination of the results of
those creative activities through a record of production and exhibitions.
Scholarship and Creative Activities are associated with a faculty member’s
recognized area of expertise and includes: proficiency by maintaining current in
one’s discipline; discovery in the form of conducting research or the expression
of artistic endeavors appropriate to the discipline; dissemination by publishing,
exhibiting or presenting in one’s field of expertise; and the translation of research
or creative activities into new products, services or modes of expression; and any
other scholarly/creative activity which is significant to the department, but not
listed on the evaluation form.
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
Justification
Discovery
and/or
Dissemination
[Productions,
Performances,
Design (works in
progress when
appropriate)
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Proficiency
(Keeping Current)
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Translation
[Performance
art based]
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Grantspersonship
(scholarly/creative)
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
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Department
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
College
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
University
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Community
Meets
Expectation
Needs Improvement