Understanding Faculty Reluctance to Assess Teaching and Learning

Authors

Dana S. Dunn, Moravian College
Maureen McCarthy, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow
Suzanne C. Baker, James Madison University
Jane S. Halonen, University of West Florida
Stacy Boyer, Moravian College

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

3-2011

Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Assessment, Evaluation Apprehension, and Social Psychology

• Evaluation Apprehension as Faculty Response to Assessment

• Faculty Freedom Threatened? Psychological Reactance and Establishing Assessment Practices

• Constructive Persuasion: Maintaining Faculty Autonomy while Opening Minds to Assessment

• A Social Psychology of Assessment

• Acknowledgments

• References