Grading the Professor

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to give you practice in developing and using a performance appraisal form.

Required Understanding: You are going to develop a performance appraisal form for an instructor and should, therefore, be thoroughly familiar with the discussion of performance appraisals in this chapter.

1. First, based on what you now know about performance appraisal, do you think Figure 9-1

is an effective scale for appraising instructors? Why? Why not?

2. Next, you should develop its own tool for appraising the performance of an instructor. Decide which of the appraisal tools (graphic rating scales, alternation ranking, and so on) you are going to use, and then design the instrument itself.