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A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions
for Teaching with Excellence

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by Barbara Gross Davis * Lynn Wood *
   Robert C. Wilson


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


   The suggestions included in this compendium, with few exceptions,
are the contributions of more than 150 members of the faculty of the
University of California, Berkeley.  These faculty members, who
included over one-third of the past recipients of the Distinguished
Teaching Award, freely opened their classrooms to evaluation by the
project staff and gave generously of their time, their experience,
and their ideas for teaching with excellence.  It is to them that
our greatest debt of thanks is owed.

   We would also like to thank the Academic Senate Committee on
Teaching, whose many members over the past two decades have worked
to promote excellence in teaching through their annual program of
Distinguished Teaching Awards.  The existence of an already-
identified pool of excellent teachers in a wide variety of disci-
plines played an important role in the decision to develop the
compendium.  On a campus with more than 1500 faculty members, our
research would have been difficult indeed if it had not been for
the Committee's work in recognizing these talented and dedicated
teachers.

   For their moral and financial support, special thanks to Watson M.
Laetsch, Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Affairs, and to Professor
Carol D'Onofrio, past chairperson of the Council on Educational
Development and Faculty Assistant to the Vice Chancellor.  

   We wish to also acknowledge and thank the Systemwide Administra-
tion of the University of California for the grant which we received
in support of the development of the compendium during the final two
years of the Teaching Evaluation and Consultation project.  Our
sincerest gratitude to David Douglas, who with patience and good
humor nurtured the suggestions through the many UNIX revisions which
finally culminated in this compendium.  Our thanks to Nina Silber
who provided skillful assistance in the final copy-editing stages.
Kate Caldwell and Kay Iwata also contributed to the production of
the final version.  Over the years, many other TIES staff members
provided valuable assistance to the overall project:  Daniel Finnegan,
Linda Moulton, and Dale Harrington--working seriatim--developed many
useful computer programs for the evaluation component of the project.
Our thanks also to Terry Richards and Marjorie Borland who provided
many support services during the course of the project.

   Although they were not directly involved in the project, we would
also like to acknowledge our debt to Professor Milton Hildebrand (UCD)
and Professor Evelyn R. Dienst (formerly UCSF and currently at the
California School of Professional Psychology) for their earlier
research on evaluating teaching, conducted with Robert C. Wilson.
The evaluation form included in this compendium is based on that
research.  Our thanks also to Professor Keith Jacoby (formerly at UCSF)
whose initial model for consulting with faculty about teaching
improvement became the impetus for the overall project.  Information on
the Hildebrand, Wilson, Dienst and the Jacoby studies can be found in
the following publications: 

   Hildebrand, M., Wilson, R.C., and Dienst, E.R.  Evaluating
     University Teaching.  University of California, Berkeley:
     Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, 1971.

   Jacoby, K.E.  Behavioral prescriptions for faculty based on
     student evaluations of teaching.  American Journal of
     Pharmaceutical Education, (40) 1976, 8-13.


     Copyright 1983 by the Regents of the University of California
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