Different Perceptions of Teaching Evaluations among Administrators, Faculty, and Students.

Effective teaching evaluation is important to all institutions of higher education in order to enhance and provide quality teaching for the students. Therefore, this study was intended to make a contribution to faculty evaluation systems in Physical Education departments in higher education. The study attempted to investigate the criteria used for teaching evaluation according to administrators', faculty members', and students perceptions whenever the criteria were used for institutions policies, for an annual review, or for tenure and promotion. Items studied included the degree of importance given to the criteria which were used in the evaluation of teaching. 125 Physical Education departments in U.S. colleges/universities were selected from the 504 eligible institutions by using a systematic sampling technique. In each college/university, thirteen persons, one department chairperson, two faculty members, and ten students, were asked to participate in the study. Data for this study were collected by using questionnaires. The findings show that the PE departments emphasized heavily the importance of the reaching function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]