Performance Appraisal and Merit Pay What a man or woman is worth based on his or her contributions is a complex subject. Contributions to what? Community, corporation, school, university, society? CEOs make the most, but do they contribute the most, making on average about ten times more per year than the president of the US. Elected US Congress people make about fifty percent more per year than most professors, who make about fifty percent more than most teachers. Teacher appraisal is a contentious process fraught with inequities. Most universities today use student evaluations to evaluate the teaching of professors, delegating the task of grading professors to students with student evaluations. See my article Optimizing the Fairness of Student Evaluations: A Study of Correlations Between Instructor Excellence (opinions of students regarding how good a teacher was in the course), Study Production (hours per week the teacher motivated students to study and work outside of class), Learning Production (causing students to learn, the purpose of teaching, showing the opinions of students regarding how much they learned in the course), and Expected Grades (the grades the teacher led students to expect relative to the grade they normally expect in courses), by Richard John Stapleton and Gene Murkison, in the post below for insights into the problem. The article shows teachers leading students to expect relatively high grades are normally rated higher as teachers, and the way to lead students to expect this is to make tests easier and class performance less demanding. Since teachers receiving the highest Instructor Excellence scores receive the highest merit raises, some poor teaches are over-rewarded and some good teachers are under-rewarded. Optimizing the Fairness of Student Evaluations is listed about one-third the way down in this anthology of outstanding articles on teaching and learning in the post below by Sage Publications. I recommended in Optimizing that universities use what I called a CITP, or Composite Indicator of Teaching Productivity, that ranks teachers based on an average of equally weighted ranks for Instructor Excellence, Study Production, Learning Production, and Relative Expected Grades scores. Optimizing the Fairness of Student Evaluations has now been cited as a reference in 44 refereed journal articles. sagepub/holt/articles/ How do you get to be a CEO anyway? Is it because you are ten times smarter than the president of the US? Is it because you have worked ten times harder and longer than most people to get where you are? No. Its because you were in the right time at the right place with the right physical appearance, emotional responses, unethical principles, and decisions necessary to please your cronies in an authoritarian undemocratic hierarchy, modern corporations being the antithesis of democracies. Having gotten there by luck, most CEOs live under a modern-day Sword of Damocles, which can result in their termination at any time. Unlike the real Damocles, however, if the thread breaks holding up the sword, they blithely walk away with several million more dollars in golden parachute money. Richard John Stapleton, effectivelearning.net, November 10, 2013
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:27:28 +0000
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