Faculty effectiveness as evaluated by students was the focal point of the first invitational conference sponsored by the Measurement and Research Center of Temple University. Papers presented cover: the rationale of student evaluation of faculty, the impact of student ratings on academia, the usefulness of student evaluations in improving college teaching, some considerations and a model of faculty evaluation, a system for helping teachers to change their affective behavior through feedback, instruments for student evaluation of faculty, the Kansas State University Program for assessing and improving instructional effectiveness, student evaluation of instruction at Michigan State University, criteria for evaluation of college teaching, correlates of student ratings, the shortcomings of traditional approaches to faculty evaluation and faculty performance under stress. (MJM)