Evaluating college teaching as leadership

Abstract

Leadership studies provide a perspective from which to view college teaching. Evidence is presented for conceptual and perceptual similarities between leadership and teaching. Both the number and content of dimensions found in descriptions and evaluations of both teaching and leadership are similar. Hypotheses validated in leadership studies also receive empirical support from teacher evaluation data. The examination of teaching in the context of measuring leadership suggests guidelines for designing programs to evaluate and to improve teacher effectiveness.