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Guidelines for Selection of the Top 15% Teaching Awards: 2009
The Top 15% Teaching Awards are to be given out once a year, in the Fall
semester, based on faculty performance during the previous academic year. For
this award, the academic year is defined as consisting of the Fall semester, the
Winter semester, the Spring semester and Summer semester sessions I and II, in
that order. Thus, the Fall 2009 awards will be based on ratings for Fall 2008;
Winter 2009; Spring 2009; Summer I, 2009; and Summer II, 2009.
There are three categories of awards.
- Category 1 awards go to the Top 15% of
full-time faculty (primarily tenure-track and Tyser Teaching Fellows).
- Category 2 awards go to the Top 15% of
lecturers, adjunct faculty and Ph.D. students.
- Category 3 awards will be made to the top
15% of faculty teaching in the MBA core and/or other courses with more than
65 students.
To be eligible for a Category 1 award, a
faculty member must teach at least two qualified courses during the academic
year. A qualified course/section is defined as having at least 10 students
responding to the teaching evaluation survey and not having a 4.0 grade
distribution in the course. In accordance with Smith School policy, EMBA courses
have now been included. Each faculty member’s score will be averaged across all
qualified courses/sections taught in the academic year under consideration. The
total number of Category 1 awards are determined by taking 15% of the total
number of Category 1 eligible faculty members, with the resultant number rounded
up to arrive at an integer number of awards. Faculty members who are in the top
15% of averaged scores will be recognized with a Category 1 Top 15% award. The
2009 threshold score for a Category 1 award will be provided along with the
award winners.
To be eligible for a Category 2 award, the
instructor must teach at least one qualified course/section. A qualified
course/section is defined as having at least 10 students responding to the
teaching evaluation survey and not having a 4.0 grade distribution in the
course. Each instructor’s score will be averaged across all qualified
courses/sections taught in the academic year under consideration. The rounding
up rule for the number of 15% Category 2 awards will be based on the total
number of individual instructors who teach a qualified course/section.
Instructors who are in the top 15% of the single class scores will be recognized
with a Category 2 Top 15% award. The 2009 threshold score for a Category 2 award
will be provided along with the award winners.
The Category 3 awards will recognize faculty
members or instructors (adjunct professor or Ph.D. student) who received the
highest average ratings based on all qualified courses/sections of MBA core
classes or large lecture classes (>65 students) he or she taught during the
academic year. To be eligible for this award, a faculty member or instructor
must have taught at least two qualified core courses/sections (or at least one
qualified section of two or more core courses). Thus, a faculty member or
instructor who teaches core classes can receive the Category 3 award, as well as
a Category 1 or Category 2 award. The 2009 threshold for a Category 3 award will
be provided along with the award winners.
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