This book compiles several essays about effective evaluation of teaching. Contents of this publication include: (1) Conducting Research on Student Evaluations of Teaching (William E. Addison and Jeffrey R. Stowell); (2) Choosing an Instrument for Student Evaluation of Instruction (Jared W. Keeley); (3) Formative Teaching Evaluations: Is Student Input Useful? (Janie H. Wilson and Rebecca G. Ryan); (4) Using Student Feedback as "One" Measure of Faculty Teaching Effectiveness (Maureen A. McCarthy); (5) Bias in Student Evaluations (Susan A. Basow and Julie L. Martin); (6) On-line Measures of Student Evaluation of Instruction (Cheryll M. Adams); (7) What's the Story on Evaluations of Online Teaching? (Michelle Drouin); (8) Using Course Portfolios to Assess and Improve Teaching (Paul Schafer, Elizabeth Yost Hammer, and Jason Berntsen); and (9) Peer Review of Teaching (Emad A. Ismail, William Buskist, and James E. Groccia). Individual chapters contain tables and references.