Example: Questions and Rating Scale
The following Technology Instructor Questions and Rating Point Scale was used to interview the applicants.
Technology Instructor Questions
Rater's Name________________________
Applicant's Name_____________________Circle the number that most closely corresponds to your observation.
4 = very good 3 = adequate 2 = fair 1 = not adequate
| Job/student Relationship Bias Specific Questions | ||||
| 1. Why do you want to teach in a community college? | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2. What does teaching excellence mean to you? | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 3. This job could require teaching evenings and weekends. How do view such an assignment? |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 4. Describe your experience working with people in a diverse and multi-cultural environment. |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 5. How would you handle an irate or hostile student? | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 6. You have a student who by all accounts is bright and intelligent, but for some reason the student's work and/or test results are not satisfactory. What would you do? |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 7. How would you handle a student that you think has cheated? | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 8. What do you want from your next job that you are not getting from your present job? |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Subject Specific Questions | ||||
| 9. Briefly describe your concept of structured programming and structured logic? |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 10. Briefly state how would explain the programming process to your students. |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 11. What things would you do to make your students more independent in their problem-solving skills? |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 12. What is your interpretation of multimedia and how multimedia applies to computer instruction? |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 13. How would you describe for a student the syntactical elements necessary to copy a file from one disk to another? |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 14. Give us some of the advantages and disadvantages of GUIs vs. command-line interfaces. |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 15. Give your specifications for the minimum requirements for a student workstation. |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 16. What is your interpretation of the copyright law as applied to the educational environment? |
4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
