Testing Transferability of a Self-Developed Teaching Effectiveness Measure across Colleges of Business.
teaching effectiveness (TE). Techniques of evaluation have varied from informal, open-ended questions such as: "What did you like about this course/instructor?"; and "What did you dislike about this course/instructor?"; to highly structured, multi-item quantitative measures. In search of valid and reliable quantitative measures, institutions have borrowed from one another, have reworked instruments that originally were designed for personnel evaluative purposes in noneducational settings, and have created their own measures through individual or committee effort [4]. Overwhelmingly, these efforts have focused on the development of standardized instruments comprised of a set of believed to be universally applicable criteria for use across disciplines within a university. A review of the literature reveals that a number of major institutions have ongoing programs pertaining to the development and use of standardized teaching evaluation instruments. These institutions include: the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, the Educational Testing Service, the University of Arizona,