Designing a Performance Appraisal for College Teachers: Where Do I Start?

Hello,

I am supposed to design a performance appraisal for teachers teaching in management colleges. I am not sure how I should begin the project.

Need your help and guidance.

Regards, Shweta Khatavkar

You can go for a 270-degree performance appraisal where you can gather feedback from students, the dean, and the teachers themselves.

Rest, let me know your requirements as I would love to help you out.

Regards

Hi dream guy,

I'm really curious to know about this 270-degree appraisal system. Could you please elaborate a bit so that novices like me can understand something about this?

Regards,
PRADEEP

360 degrees is nothing but taking feedback from all the parties that affect or come directly in contact with the person concerned. This contact certainly either affects or is critical for the performance of the person. However, in 270 degrees, we leave out one dimension whose effect is not very prevalent, such as customers, suppliers, etc.

Regards

Depending on how you classify them, students can be regarded as “customers”. So, dreamguy's 270 degree appraisal may be seen as a full 360.

360 degree appraisals gather “soft” measures. You might also want to use some hard measures, although when it comes to teaching, this can be very problematic. Using raw student scores at the end of the year won't do as a hard measure because this can easily drive the wrong teaching behavior. Some teachers will just go soft and pass as many students as they can. Secondly, students come from widely varying backgrounds, so it's not easy to compare one teacher's teaching outcomes with another.

If you could sort the student cohort into different demographic groups and then look at the improvement in score for each group under the different teachers, this may be the way to go. Some/all of the student assessments will also need to be done externally so as to eliminate teacher bias.

Les Allan

Author: From Training to Enhanced Workplace Performance

www.businessperform.com

Thank you for enlightening me. However, in a 270-degree appraisal, we omit one dimension. In the present case of teachers, we have overlooked the role of colleagues or the board in the appraisal process, which may not be that prevalent. Feedback from colleagues can represent the softer side where the individual can be evaluated based on their relational and knowledge-sharing skills. Please let me know if I am mistaken.

Regards

Dear Shweta ji,

For your guidance, I posted the 'Teacher Performance System' on the same site. It may be useful for your needs. Please take a look.

Regards,
PBS KUMAR

Hi dreamguy. Yes, 270 degree usually refers to one stakeholder group being omitted as respondents. I wasn't saying you were wrong, just that students can be seen as part of the “customer” stakeholder group.
If you were to run a feedback survey, I would strongly recommend including teaching peers. I regard survey feedback from all of the stakeholder groups as providing “soft” measures because all of them are based on personal “impressions”. Not that this is a bad. In fact, I am a strong advocate of 360 degree feedback instruments, as long as they are used correctly.
Les Allan
Author: From Training to Enhanced Workplace Performance
www.businessperform.com