Presentation Date: Sunday August 2, 2009
  Presentation Time: 8:00 am-12:00 pm

CPE Session 30

Guerrilla Teaching Tactics

Presented By:

Donald Crumbley, Louisiana State University

Description: Tenure is disappearing. Post-tenure reviews are more prevalent. Yet an unusual procedure occurs in higher education: The raw materials (e.g., students) are determining who are kept & fired. Student evaluation of teaching (SET) data is used exclusively at most universities/colleges to determine the effectiveness of instructors. There is controversy as to the validity and reliability of data from SET questionnaires. This workshop provides teaching tactics for teachers in order to manage SET scores. Most faculty face ethical dilemmas each semester as they receive pressure from their university to compromise their personal integrity by managing their SET scores. This pressure to “cook their SET scores” is intense since each professor is competing with peers who are cooking their scores. Subject matters covered include: Variables impacting SET scores. Hard teachers. Easy graders. Agency theory. Pander pollution. Abusive SET management. Impression management. Ingratiation techniques. Rules of the trade. Negative variables. Dishonesty of students. Reasons for grade inflation. Teaching strategies. Alternatives to SET. Peer review. Administrator review. Portfolios. Quota. Measuring learning. Teaching performance model. Transcript fixes.

Field of Study: Accounting
Program Level: Basic

Intended Audience: Teaching nontenured adjuncts, clinical, and older faculty members are the appropriate target audience. Faculty members from universities where tenure has disappeared and in states/universities that have imposed post-tenure review should be interested. Administrators who wish to adopts alternatives to the dysfunctional SET performance measurement system.

Format/Structure: The workshop is, in general, given in an interactive lecture format. Several pop quizes are used.

Learning Objective: A co-author of the new TLC’s monograph on “Measuring Learning” will teach you about • Negative/ positive variables impacting SET scores. • Hard teachers v. Easy graders. • Impression management/ingratiation techniques. • Rules of the trade. • Abusive SET management. • Agency theory/ controlling professors/ retention rates. • Grade inflation and coursework deflation. • Alternatives to SET. • Portfolios. • Teaching Performance Model. • Measuring learning. • Transcript fixes. • Quota system. • Peer and administrative reviews.

Prerequisites: None.

Advanced Preparation Required: None.

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