FACULTY EVALUATION
Overview
To foster excellence in teaching and learning, ACC, with guidance from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), evaluates the job performance of all faculty members. This process begins with student evaluations which are conducted each Fall in every section taught, including Distance Learning sections. In addition, each faculty member completes and submits a self-evaluation each Spring (known as a Faculty Input Form), and finally, faculty members submit portfolios according to the College's three- year portfolio schedule. The Department's Faculty Evaluation Committee, in consultation with the Department Chair, is responsible for conducting the peer review of these elements each Spring semester. See the Appendix for a sample of the evaluation forms used by the Committee.
The self-evaluation Faculty Input Form is submitted by each individual faculty member in the Spring semester. This form provides faculty members the opportunity to respond in a thoughtful and detailed way to comments from students and the statistical analysis from students' evaluations of the instructor and his/her course, and to document plans for instructional performance gains in the coming year. Adjunct faculty who fail to submit the Faculty Input Form by the college deadline may be removed from the eligibility list.
Peer evaluation of instructional performance is conducted through the Department's Faculty Evaluation Committee composed of full-time faculty members. Peer evaluation is based on review of a portfolio reflecting instructional performance that is submitted by the faculty member.
A portfolio should demonstrate a faculty member's very best work by illustrating how they teach and assess student learning of a "single significant subject."
Note: The phrase "single significant subject" describes a section of a course. Faculty may interpret "single significant subject" as narrowly as a single topic such as the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branches or as broadly as an entire unit such as Institutions. The subject should be substantial enough to provide the Evaluation Committee with enough material to fairly evaluate the faculty member.
Portfolios are due by the first Friday in November of the academic year. Adjunct faculty who fail to submit required portfolios by the college deadline may be removed from the eligibility list. There are three types of portfolios: the First Year, the Second Year, and the Third Year.
Portfolio training sessions will be held on Friday, August 21, at 1:30 p.m. in HBC Room 222, on Tuesday, September 1, at 6:00 p.m. in HBC Room 103.2, and Saturday, September 12, at 10:00 a.m. in HBC, Room 103.2.