Transforming Higher Education - The overarching goal of this project is to advance educational practices by creating, aligning, and sustaining effective evaluation strategies that promote the use of evidence-based instructional strategies. We simultaneously seek to advance understanding of the institutional change process by studying the adoption and integration of new approaches to evaluating teaching.
Three universities in the TEval network are developing new evaluation strategies: University of Kansas, University of Colorado Boulder, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Additionally, researchers at Michigan State University are studying across each of these sites , and researchers at Yale are evaluating the project .
University of Kansas
Benchmarks Project
Benchmarks for Teaching Effectiveness is organized as a rubric and identifies seven dimensions of teaching practice that are designed to capture the teaching endeavor in its totality, including activities outside the classroom ...
University of Colorado Boulder
Teaching Quality Framework initiative
The Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) initiative facilitates departmental and campus-wide efforts to provide a richer evaluation of teaching to enhance the value of high-quality teaching and reward scholarly approaches to improving student learning ...
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The project will help departments adapt and implement new evaluation frameworks that draw from multiple sources of evidence, including the instructor’s materials, peer feedback, and student voices ...