This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them. 
The thrust of this book is unique: <ul>
<li>It provides time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started with portfolios.</li> <li>It includes a research-based rubric grounded in input from 200 faculty members and department chairs from across disciplines and institutions.</li> <li>It examines specific guiding questions to consider when preparing every subsection of the portfolio.</li> <li>It presents 18 portfolio models from 16 different academic disciplines.</li> </ul>
Designed for faculty members, department chairs, deans, and members of promotion and tenure committees, all of whom are essential partners in developing successful academic portfolio programs, the book will also be useful to graduate students, especially those planning careers as faculty members.

The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service

Education & Teaching

Seldin, Peter

Miller, J. Elizabeth

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass

Praise for The Teaching Portfolio "This new edition of a classic text has added invaluable, immediately useful material. It's a must-read for faculty, department chairs, and academic administrators." ―Irene W. D. Hecht, director, Department Leadership Programs, American Council on Education "This book offers a wealth of wisdom and materials. It contains essential knowledge, salient advice, and an immediately useful model for faculty engaged in promotion or tenure." ―Raymond L. Calabrese, professor of educational administration, The Ohio State University "The Teaching Portfolio provides the guidelines and models that faculty need to prepare quality portfolios, plus the standards and practices required to evaluate them." ―Linda B. Nilson, director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University "Focused on reflection, sound assessment, and collaboration, this inspiring and practical book should be read by every graduate student, faculty member, and administrator." ―John Zubizarreta, professor of English, Columbia College "All the expanded and new sections of this book add real value, but administrators and review committees will clearly benefit from the new section on how to evaluate portfolios with a validated template." ―Barbara Hornum, director, Center for Academic Excellence, Drexel University "This book is practical, insightful, and immediately useful. It's an essential resource for faculty seeking promotion/tenure or who want to improve their teaching." ―Michele Stocker-Barkley, faculty, Department of Psychology, Kishwaukee Community College "The Teaching Portfolio has much to say to teachers of all ranks, disciplines, and institutions. It offers a rich compendium of practical guidelines, examples, and resources." ―Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Associate Provost for Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Teaching portfolios help our Board on Rank and Tenure really understand the quality and value of individual teaching contributions." ―Martha L. Wharton, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity, Loyola University, Maryland

The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions

Seldin, Clement A.

This book describes how administrators can develop institutional policies and practices that support good teaching, reshape faculty evaluation and reward systems, and make teaching a higher priority in academic life. It offers a wealth of practical guidelines and field-tested strategies and programs.

How Administrators Can Improve Teaching: Moving from Talk to Action in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass Higher Education Series)

Proquest/Csa Journal Div

Changing Practices in Faculty Evaluation: A Critical Assessment and Recommendations for Improvement (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series)

Schools & Teaching

From Back Cover: The teaching portfolio is a vital tool for faculty. It details experience with portfolios; provides time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started; offers practical suggestions on using for improved teaching performance; outlines important points to consider in evaluating them; offers seventeen model teaching portfolios. (Description by http-mart)

Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios

Anker Pub Co.

Evaluating and Developing Administrative Performance shows how to systematically evaluate and help improve the performance of academic administrators. It presents approaches to assessment, offers practical strategies for refining skills in key areas of professional development--and shows how to make equitable promotion and retention decisions in an era of increasing accountability.

Evaluating and Developing Administrative Performance: A Practical Guide for Academic Leaders (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series)

This book describes how administrators can develop institutional policies and practices that support good teaching, reshape faculty evaluation and reward systems, and make teaching a higher priority in academic life. It offers a wealth of practical guidelines and field-tested strategies and programs.

How Administrators Can Improve Teaching: Moving from Talk to Action in Higher Education (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series)

This book provides practical, ready-to-use, research-based information about specific strategies and state-of-the-art techniques to improve college teaching. Through its nineteen chapters written by renowned faculty developers, the book offers a wide range of topics and ideas for thought and implementation. The chapters present programs that develop such necessary new skills as different teaching approaches needed for different kinds of students; use of current educational technology; evaluating one’s own teaching and helping others to evaluate theirs; and providing feedback on teaching.
Improving College Teaching is an ideal resource for presidents, provost, academic vice presidents, deans, department chairs, instructional development specialists, and faculty—the essential partners in evaluating and improving college teaching. It will also be helpful to students of higher education, whether they are planning careers as academic administrators or faculty.
Contents include: • Crucial new roles for administrators • Motivating faculty • Effective TA training • Starting a university teaching center • Low-cost/no-cost instructional development activities • Instructional development in community colleges • Mentoring programs • Peer classroom observations • Using teaching portfolios • Developing student portfolios • Evaluating your own teaching • Faculty collaboration • Distance education • Teaching adult learners 
With contributions by: • Susan A. Ambrose, Carnegie Mellon University • Linda Annis, Ball State University • Robert A. Armour, Board of Higher Education and Ministry • Raoul A. Arreola, University of Tennessee, Memphis • Ann E. Austin, Michigan State University • Roger G. Baldwin, College of William and Mary • Beverly Black, University of Michigan • L. Dee Fink, University of Oklahoma • Walter H. Gmelch, Iowa State University • Judy A. Greene, University of Delaware • Irene W. D. Hecht, American Council on Education • William K. Jackson, University of Georgia • Carolee Jones, Ball State University • Barbara Beigun Kaplan, University of Maryland University College • Joseph M. Pastore, Jr., Pace University • Ronald D. Simpson, University of Georgia • Mary Deane Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts Amherst • Emily C. (Rusty) Wadsworth, McHenry County College • Peter H. Wagschal, National University • John Zubizarreta, Columbia College

Improving College Teaching (JB - Anker)

Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition of the classic hands-on resource offers a comprehensive review of all the facets developing teaching portfolios. This new edition will contain new perspectives and ideas; an expanded section on web-based electronic teaching portfolios ; a sample of colleges and universities that shows how they have implemented portfolios; real-world teaching portfolios of twenty-one faculty members and a report from a university provost on what he looks for in a portfolios submitted for promotion.

Teaching Portfolio

Anker Publishing Company

Over recent decades, the evaluation of teaching has undergone dramatic change. In accessible language and supportive detail, Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching provides not only a cogent overview of these changes but also reflects on current developments to present several useful strategies for implementing new tools and methods in the evaluation of teaching. The authors are all prominent educators who have performed seminal work in the improvement of teaching evaluation. 
Written for university and college administrators as well as faculty, this book is a complete guidebook that supplies a wealth of case studies, examples, tables, Web sites, and exhibits that further enhance its utility. It explains how to <ul>
<li>Gain genuine faculty and administrative support</li> <li>Avoid common weaknesses in teaching evaluation by students, peers, and self</li> <li>Evaluate teaching by examining student learning</li> <li>Successfully combine disparate sources of data</li> <li>Establish a climate conducive to evaluation</li> <li>How to structure and use classroom visits, rating forms, electronic classroom assessment, and teaching portfolios</li> </ul>
Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching makes evident the compelling reasons why colleges and universities must institute fair teaching evaluation systems, and explains how to do so. With a notable focus on improving student learning, this book offers readers the kind of research-based and ready-to-use information required to foster truly effective and equitable teaching evaluation at their institutions.

Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions

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