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I'm Mark beech. The University of Arizona for some two years now has had an office of instructional research and development. Its directors since its inception has been Dr. Larry alimony. Dr. alimony. One is I read,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=5.0,21.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I read more is the acronym that we have fictionally found to represent the Office of instructional research and development. And the office was originally set up as a resource to faculty to help them in improving instruction. And the way this is accomplished is by providing the faculty on the campus with various services and resources, which they can access on a voluntary basis, to look very critically diagnostically at what they're doing in the instructional area. And if we identify areas of weaknesses or strengths, and specifically the areas of weaknesses, that we try to go in and address those and make changes and improve it. Several things have been offered to the faculty all the way from and instrument to assess student attitudes about what's going on in the classroom, to workshops to show faculty how to better construct examinations devise grading systems, to plan their instruction in a format that would be very conducive to maximizing the learning on the part of the students etc. So that's about the scope of the office up to the present point in time and the types of services that are being offered","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=22.0,84.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: this past summer, or rather, recently, you sent a note to the faculty regarding evaluation of instruction here on campus, essentially, what did that contain?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=85.0,94.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Okay, the note you're referring to would be the fifth note to the faculty that I've been setting up and roughly trying to get about two out of year, each one addressing a different instructional concern, the last one, address the area or the topic of rewarding and improving instructional effectiveness. The reason for coming up with such an old is to try to stimulate faculty and specifically at the departmental level, to establish a systematic way of evaluating instruction for two major purposes, one, to provide the information back to the faculty member for improvement purposes, and secondly, to be used and implemented in the promotion and tenure system at the university. One of the main reasons for that is that typically at campuses of this size, and even at much smaller campuses, three major goals are articulated, or at least emphasized by the institutions, and that would be research teaching and service. Unfortunately, we have very little excuse me, evidence or procedure set up to be able to do an accurate job of evaluating how well instruction is taking place, what areas need improvement, etc. Also, we have no way then of utilizing that information to be able to say that a person can be judged competently, based on their instructional effectiveness. That's one of the main reasons for coming up with a note. As a result of this. Many departments on campus now have been contacting me to try to work with them to set up systematic ways of evaluating instruction, so that we can use it mainly as a device for improvement and then in the long run to include it along with evaluations of scholarly productivity, etc, for promotion and tenure decisions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=95.0,197.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: This concept of rewarding faculty for good teaching as it's somewhat new, is that important, do you feel the structure of the university?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=198.0,205.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Okay, I guess to answer the first question, it's not new if you define reward as giving prizes for good instruction. Now, the typical reward of instructional effectiveness in the past has been like a popularity contest where someone will get a cash award. The new approach now is that we remove that type of reward and say that we're establishing it as part of the normal reward system, ie promotion tenure within the university rather than a one shot cash prize or plaque award. And we're trying to make this a more viable element that can have a profound effect on the way instruction is viewed and reinforced on university campuses. In terms of its effect now, throughout the country, I would say several institutions are moving in this direction. I don't think there is one institution, at least at this point in time yet, that has totally adopted a system where you have a instructional evaluation scheme as a formal part of every evaluation that takes place of all faculty. Do you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=206.0,265.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: have any student input as such regarding evaluation of faculty?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=266.0,270.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Yes, in the system that I'm trying to get the faculty to look at and really model something after I'm not saying that I have a fixed system everyone has to follow, but at least I'm giving them a model they can build their own around. student input is one component, which would come probably from student evaluations of instruction in the classroom setting. Another component would be peer evaluation of the materials used in the course. The syllabus the examinations used, how well the instructors are devising their methods for teaching students and motivating them. And a third component would be the quality of the student product. How well did the students learn? How do they how successful are they when they get out into the business or workaday world, these are all things that we really haven't paid much attention to in the past, we've typically concentrated on only the student input, we need the other inputs now to make it a viable quote system.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=271.0,321.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: How do you go about setting up guidelines within various colleges and departments to assist them in evaluating their teaching?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=322.0,329.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: The the technique that I'm using now is as a result of the note now will stimulate certain departments and colleges to pick up the gauntlet at this point and try to run with it. Then what I'm doing is providing more explicit definitions of what I mean by how do we define what peer judgments will be? What are the elements that the peers would judge instructional effectiveness on? How would we look at student evaluations? How do you define quality of student product when they come out? Is it just the their performance at the end of that particular course? Or is it their performance as a result of a sequence of courses in a department that supposed to prepare them for their professional area for other contingent courses? So what I'm doing now is working with the departments by first providing them as much information as they asked for at that point in time without being too prescriptive. I don't want to come in there saying, Hey, I have the answer. Just ask me and I'll be able to tell you exactly how to do it. In the first place. I don't think it's appropriate in the second place, I really can't do that. Everything changes from one department to another from one major discipline to another things are different in chemistry, versus sociology. And so we have to pay attention to certain aspects that are unique to each one of those conditions","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=330.0,398.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: are other colleges or community colleges within the state and outside the state implementing implementing similar procedures.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=399.0,406.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Yes, they are. It's been a little slow. In the past few years, although there's been a heavy emphasis nationwide to try to get in this area and establish systems of evaluating instruction. I've been working with both large and small colleges, inside and outside the state of Arizona. And there are a few now I'd say two or three that are very close to adopting systems that will be used institution wide. And in one instance, in Tennessee, if it's adopted at the institution I'm working with now, it very well may become the model that will be used statewide. So things are moving in this direction. A lot of it comes from the pressures that are being created for the quality of the student products that we're putting out. You've heard a lot of the press releases recently that talk about the declining quality of students. So there is a major concern. I think one of the ways that we can address this, and probably remedy the problem is to pay attention to what we're doing now and give appropriate recognition and reinforcement to people who really want to do a better job and instruction.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=407.0,467.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Seems to me that there's one legislature in a nearby or neighboring state that is already interested or concerned about teacher performance within the classroom and have even gone so far as to propose legislation. Do you see implications within the University System of this type of thing?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=468.0,485.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Yes. One of the main reasons that I've been pushing so hard the past few years, even prior to my coming to Arizona, for faculty to pick up, the option of devising their own systems is that I see in the long run, if we don't start establishing techniques for not only being able to show that we're doing an effective job in instruction, but also setting up methods and techniques for improving it, that we'll probably start getting legislation to enforce that. Now the legislation may not be able to do that job, but it will be imposed anyway. California, as you alluded to before, which was the other state has started legislating that type of action with regards to what's going on in the classroom setting. Other states I'm sure will follow suit. I would much rather have the faculty of our institution and others that throughout the rest of states in the union, set up their own systems and have the answers ready and the means of being able to improve without having to have a legislative from without.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495#t=486.0,551.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1953/collection_resources/73812/file/159495/transcript/37682/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I've been talking with Dr. Larry alimony director of the University of Arizona's Office of instructional research and development. 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