Purposes of Evaluation of University Instructors: Definitions, Delineations and Dimensions

Research and writings on evaluation of college and university instructors are expanding. Not unrelated to this phenomenon are controversies which focus on justification and use of ratings of instructors1 as well as attempts to meet demands and ward off pressures for ac- countability. Also not unrelated to it are uncertainties and confusion surrounding purposes of evaluation of instructors and a widespread feeling that no single evaluation instrument can best suit more than one purpose. This paper describes considerations for establishing purposes of evaluation. We discuss definitions, delineations, and dimensions of purposes, and propose general models which can serve as guidelines for further development and specification of purposes

Major Planning Activities in Israeli Education: Politically Dictated Improvisations

Planning is a formal act of looking at the future by way of technically weighing the alternatives. An interesting contrast in Israel is the existence of a relatively high value placed on educationi and the absence of long range educational planning. Political considerations may explain the contrast, and, thus, one purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze selected features of the relationship of political forces and educational planning in Israel. To that end, educational planning activities are first shown to be primarily short term in nature. On the basis of examples of developments in the national administration of education, it is then argued that major proposals advanced by the Ministry of Education constituted in large part responses by the politicians to societal demands which were channeled through the Ministry. The argument is supplemented by descriptions of the primary effects which political variables have had on rapid national development and of the high degree of influence which political realities have had on major developments within the Ministry of Education

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