Resources
Below you will find relevant resources related to this initiative: archives of documents; links to exemplary models at other institutions; and a selected bibliography of research that informed our approach.
- University of Kansas Benchmarks for Teaching Effectiveness*
- Colorado University-Boulder’s Teaching Quality Framework*
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Dimensions of Teaching Rubric*
- Colorado State University’s Teaching Effectiveness Framework (with a flowchart of feedback loop)
- Boise State University’s Framework for Assessing Teaching Effectiveness (and rubric)
- Royal Academy of Engineering Career Framework for University Teaching
- University of Oregon’s Criteria for Effective Teaching
- University of Southern California’s Definition of Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Teaching Initiative
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Definition of Teaching Effectiveness
* Contributing members to NSF T-EVAL Project
- Boysen, Guy A. “Statistical Knowledge and the Over-Interpretation of Student Evaluations of Teaching.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 42, no. 7 (2016): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2016.1227958.
- Centra, John A. Reflective Faculty Evaluation: Enhancing Teaching and Determining Faculty Effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
- Esarey, Justin, and Natalie Valdes. “Unbiased, Reliable, and Valid Student Evaluations Can Still Be Unfair.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2020.1724875.
- Kite, Mary E. Effective Evaluation of Teaching: A Guide for Faculty and Administrators. Society for the Teaching of Psychology, 2012. teachpsych.org/ebooks/evals2012.
- Kreitzer, Rebecca J., and Jennie Sweet-Cushman. “Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: A Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform.” Journal of Academic Ethics, 2021, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-021-09400-w.
- Linse, Angela R. “Interpreting and Using Student Ratings Data: Guidance for Faculty Serving as Administrators and on Evaluation Committees.” Studies in Educational Evaluation 54 (2017): 94–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2016.12.004.
- Seldin, Peter. The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions. Second. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 1997.
- Simonson, Shawn R., Brittnee Earl, and Megan Frary. “Establishing a Framework for Assessing Teaching Effectiveness.” College Teaching, 2021, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2021.1909528.
- Uttl, Bob, Carmela A. White, and Daniela Wong Gonzalez. “Meta-Analysis of Faculty’s Teaching Effectiveness: Student Evaluation of Teaching Ratings and Student Learning Are Not Related.” Studies in Educational Evaluation, Evaluation of teaching: Challenges and promises, 54 (September 1, 2017): 22–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2016.08.007.
- Wieman, Carl. “A Better Way to Evaluate Undergraduate Teaching.” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 47, no. 1 (2015): 6–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2015.996077.