18 September 2018
On Friday, September 7, 2018, Rupinder Bhatia set up an online webinar on the integration of Canvas and Turnitin.com. Here’s the video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/193A064SicxfHcHCycN59sHbVd90LhyQ1/view
Note:
The integration seems to only support plagiarism checking software and will not allow for the use of self-created rubrics or comments on papers. So, if you plan on giving feedback on essays through turnitin.com, you still may need to have students submit directly through turnitin.com.
Filed under: Faculty, Miscellaneous, Training. Tagged: Canvas, online learning, SDO Office Hours, turnitin.com
11 September 2018
After being hired, faculty can take courses to move up columns (A – E) for salary or pay rate increase:
Column A = Master’s degree
Column B = 45 credits above a Bachelor’s degree
Column C = + 60 credits or more
Column D = + 75 credits or more
Column E = + 90 credits or more OR Doctorate degree
*For graduate level courses, submit official transcripts directly to HR for review. For undergraduate level courses, a maximum of 20 units can be applied to column advancement AND additional approval is required (see form below). See below for instructions:
Filed under: Faculty, Miscellaneous. Tagged: column advancement requests, SDO Office Hours
30 August 2018
Evaluations are one of most important and yet tenuous faculty-to-faculty interactions. Most instructional faculty receive little to no pedagogical training, and most receive almost no training in conducting evaluation of peers. And, yet, formal faculty evaluations are one of the most high-stakes tools we use to understand the quality of faculty interaction and success with our students.
A few studies have shown the limitations of student evaluations (“An Evaluation of Course Evaluations” and “Flawed Evaluations”) while others have created inventories to look more broadly on an instructor’s effectiveness (“A Better Way to Evaluate Undergraduate Teaching”). In Spring 2013, the state Academic Senate came up with this report, “Sound Principles for Faculty Evaluation,” espousing the need for candid conversations founded in cultures of trust, especially when making “hard decisions.”
In 2015, Peralta’s faculty union (PFT 1603) and District Academic Senate (DAS) jointly approved an inquiry into faculty evaluations. Representatives conducted a survey, held focus groups, and eventually drafted an outline of suggested practices for evaluation of face-to-face instructional faculty: Draft of Suggested Practices for Faculty Evaluations (Face-to-Face Instruction).
While that was a great start, we still need to create such an outline for non-instructional faculty and for fully online classes. In addition, it seems that more frequent formative (and informal) evaluations from a number of data points might help faculty review and improve their practice with more regularity and rigor.
For more information on Peralta’s faculty evaluation, please visit this site:
Edit: Vanson Nguyen sent these interesting documents (note: these are only resources and not suggested practices or mandated procedures):
Filed under: Evaluations, Faculty, Training. Tagged: Evaluation, SDO Office Hours
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