OVERALL PERFORMANCE: THE EVALUATION SUMMARY
The overall performance summary consists of paragraphs citing areas of strength and areas for improvement in instruction and professional obligations of the faculty member. The written comments should refer to the standards. The overall performance form, guidelines and an example are found in Appendix F.
Responsibilities and Approaches
The evaluator will write narratives on the faculty member's areas of strength and areas that need improvement in instruction and professional responsibilities. The narratives are written to address the four categories of standards (motivation of self and students, interpersonal skills regarding interactions with students and colleagues, knowledge base regarding student learning and of one's discipline, and skill at applying that knowledge base by promoting independent and critical thinking of students and assessing their progress in learning).
The narratives provide a framework for the evaluation summary conference between the evaluator and faculty member. The conference should be approached in a positive manner. First, the evaluator summarizes the faculty member's areas of strength. Second, the evaluator discusses the areas that need improvement. The focus of the conversation should be on the impact of the instructor's teaching on student learning.
The evaluator is expected to confer with the faculty member at the end of the semester in which the evaluation took place. However, in the event that the evaluator and faculty member cannot meet by the end of the evaluation semester, the summary conference can be delayed until the beginning of the following semester.