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Annual Performance Review (APR)

The annual evaluation of faculty performance is a review of the immediately preceding calendar year. New hires will be reviewed on the immediately preceding semester. An individual faculty member will complete the

Merit Instrument and provide documentation to the department head in support of his/her accomplishments in

the areas of teaching, intellectual contributions and service. This documentation will be evaluated in each of these three areas based on the following weights:

Teaching 50%

Intellectual Contributions 40%

Service 10%

Teaching

The missions of McNeese State University and the College of Business emphasize teaching excellence as the primary goal for faculty members. Teaching is evaluated based on Student Evaluation of Instruction and department heads evaluation. Fifty percent of the teaching evaluation is based on the rating reflected in the preceding Spring and Fall semesters‘ Student Evaluation of Instruction Combined Report. This report is prepared by the Office of Institutional Research. The College‘s goal is for every faculty member to achieve at least an 85% annual rating on the Student Evaluation of Instruction Combined Report.

The department head‘s evaluation is based on four evaluation components:

 course content – including instructor currency, and topic coverage

 instructional methods- including the incorporation of technology, interactive learning, oral and written communication skills and teambuilding projects, grade distribution and testing  administrative factors-including maintenance of sufficient office hours, adequate preparation

of course syllabi and related documents, consistent class attendance and collegiality  contribution to departmental teaching effectiveness.

Possible merit points will be determined by the formula:

Merit Points = Value of SEI (100 points scale rounded to nearest whole number) minus 70 with a maximum of 25.

Merit Points = SEI – 70, max of 25

Possible merit points for departmental evaluation are based upon the following:

Evaluation

Components Criteria for Evaluation

Merit Points Possible 1. Course Content The instructor should show evidence of appropriate content in their

courses.

Items can include but are not limited to: topic currency; topic

appropriateness; sufficiency of coverage; participation in professional activities.

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2. Instructional Methods

The instructor should show evidence of use of appropriate instructional methods.

Items can include but are not limited to: participation in the Student

Writing Initiative; appropriate use of Blackboard; oral and/or written student projects; group projects; appropriate grade distributions.

3. Administrative Factors

The instructor should show evidence of meeting instructional requirements.

Items can include but are not limited to quality academic advising; holding appropriate office hours, distributing appropriate syllabi and course documentation, starting classes on-time, contributing to a collegial environment. 6 4. Contribution to Departmental Teaching Effectiveness

The instructor should show evidence of effective teaching and student learning.

Items can include but are not limited to; effective classroom innovation; participation in Freshman Foundations; teaching loads (number of students, preps); flexibility in teaching schedule.

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5. Significant Contributions to the College or the University

The instructor should show evidence of significant activities that advance the College of Business and/or McNeese State University

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Intellectual Contributions

Intellectual contributions (I.C.) which are appropriate to the mission of the College and available for public scrutiny by academic peers and practitioners are expected of all faculty members.

The College of Business must consider at least two types of scholarly productivity or intellectual contributions (I.C.):

Type 1, Article in Refereed Journal (PRJ) and Type 2, Other Types of Intellectual Contributions (OIC). For any faculty member, the scholarly productivity will be acknowledged for a 5-year, ―rolling window‖ period. Period 5 will always be the current reporting period for merit purposes. Period 4 will be the immediately preceding period and so on. All I.C. will be acknowledged only in the period of their presentation, be that in print or in oral presentation, i.e., letters of acceptance will not count for merit purposes.

Type 2 I.C. may represent 25 percent of a person‘s merit score. However, no Type 2 points can be acknowledged for a faculty member until that person has accrued a minimum of one refereed journal article counted in the 5-year ―rolling window.‖ A person may have the maximum of 40 merit I.C. points in Type 1 scholarly activity. The maximum number of merit points that can be earned for the total of Type 1 and Type 2 intellectual contributions is 40.

An article in a refereed journal must be written in the business discipline in which the faculty member teaches, somehow relatable to that discipline, and/or the article can be related to university-level education methods somehow relatable to their discipline. Coauthoring is encouraged. However, in no case may any of the coauthors receive more I.C. points than they would if the scholarly product were single author. All coauthors must receive some number of I.C. points. In most cases, all of these issues will be obvious or easy to resolve; however, in cases of confusion (e.g., relatable to discipline), the issues will be resolved between the faculty member(s) and their immediate supervisor (i.e., department head or dean if the faculty member is a department head). Appeals may be made to the dean.

The weight of Intellectual Contributions and Scholarly Productivity for College of Business merit purposes will be 40 percent of an individual‘s merit report. I.C. points will be accumulated and converted to merit points using the information presented. The procedure for determining the actual ranking of an article is for the faculty member to make a presentation to the department head documenting the rationale for a certain ranking. If the department head and the faculty member disagree on the appropriate ranking, this issue will be presented to the dean for a final determination of the most appropriate ranking. To be classified as a refereed journal

article the journal must have a review board, the article must be externally reviewed, and the journal‘s refereed status must be noted in Cabell’s Directory or a letter from the editor must certify that the journal is externally reviewed and is refereed. As part of the merit document, each I.C. (both Type 1 and Type 2) must be designated by author(s) as ―disciplined-based scholarship,‖ ―contributions to practice,‖ or ―learning and pedagogical research.‖ Failure to make these designations is an incomplete merit review form.