Abstract
The text analyses the documentation of the periodic evaluation of academic
teachers at 22 Polish universities with the faculties of Pedagogy, shows the
conditions of this evaluation and characterises its procedure. The content
analysis reveals what issues in the internal regulatory documents establish the
periodic evaluation of academic teachers and its procedure, as well as the extent
to which they are represented in these documents. In order to fully describe the regulations and to explore the differences among the universities in the area of
teacher evaluation, the authors used a statistical analysis. The results show
a wide variation of the elements that are included in the internal documents
regulating the periodic evaluation of academic teachers. The authors refer to the
contemporary press and media discussion on the condition of universities and
the directions of their development. They interpret the findings referring also to
the contemporary perception of a university as an enterprise as well as to strong
bureaucracy at the universities and its adverse impact on their evaluation system.
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