Evaluation of teaching

New Directions for Teaching and Learning. Special Issue: Techniques and Strategies for Interpreting Student Evaluations (Vol 2001, Issue 87)
Articles of interest in this special issue include: Evaluating teaching through teaching awards (Carusetta); Using Student Outcomes to Evaluate Teaching: A Cautious Exploration (Fenwick); and Teaching Evaluation and Accreditation (Beaty)

New Directions for Teaching and Learning. Special Issue: Special Issue: Fresh Approaches to the Evaluation of Teaching (Vol 2001, Issue 88)
Articles of interest in this special issue include: Interpretive and Critical Evaluation (Cranton); Using Portfolios to Document Good Teaching: Premises, Purposes, Practices (Knapper & Wright); Formative Evaluation and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Smith); Teaching Evaluation and Accreditation (Beaty)

Evaluating teaching performance
Paulsen (2002) examines three key principles that promote effective faculty evaluation: clarifying expectations of and by faculty, identifying the nature and sources of data to be used for evaluation, and clarifying the purposes and uses of evaluation data.

Accountabili ty in the academy: Rasch measurement of student feedback surveys
A book chapter (11 pages) from Trevor Bond (2005) reporting on the development of the SFS (Student Feedback about Subjects) and SFT (Student Feedback about Teaching) evaluation instruments at James Cook University. Bond describes the use and value of Rasch measurement techniques to analyse and report Likert styled data collected from student feedback surveys.

Ins truments for obtaining student feedback: A review of the literature
An article (29 pages) from John Richardson (2005) of the Open University (UK) that reviews the research evidence from North America, UK and Australia concerning the use of formal instruments to measure students’ evaluations of their teachers, students’ satisfaction with their programs and students’ perceptions of the quality of their programs. Richardson also raises important critical questions about teaching evaluation methods and purposes.

Encouraging Students to Give Feedback
This useful summary of a paper by Svinick (2001) provides insights into the reasons why students don't give more feedback, describes the qualities of effective feedback, and outlines some techniques for optimising and improving written feedback from students.

Teaching for Learning: Evaluation
A site from Flinders University which succinctly answers questions such as What is Evaluation of Teaching? Why conduct evaluation? What decisions can be based on the data? What can be evaluated? and Who should evaluate? It also contains useful information on self- and peer-review processes.

Learning-Centred Evaluation of Computer-Facilitated Learning Projects in Higher Education (CUTSD Project)
This project sought to address widely-acknowledged shortcomings in the evaluation of Computer-facilitated Learning projects (CFL) by providing a learner-centred framework for whole project evaluation.. The framework encompasses the analysis and design, development, implementation, and institutionalisation stages of the projects. The Draft Evaluation Handbook is also available online.

Evaluating Your Own Teaching
Originally published in Improving College Teaching (Seldin, 1999), this article provides a rationale for why we evaluate and describes five sources of information that can be used to evaluate our teaching. It also provides some sources of assistance and ideas for improving your teaching evaluations.

Evaluation Cookbook
A practical guide aimed at lecturers who are interested in evaluating materials for their effectiveness in achieving specific learning objectives. Readers can pick and mix from a range of ideas and suggestions and through this process to design an evaluation study to suit their own specific needs. Contains some useful exemplars.

The TLT/Flashlight Collection: Assessment and Evaluation Topics

An annotated bibliography of free articles and websites on Flashlight and on the larger subject of studying educational uses of technology.

UTS Evaluation Guide

The Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Technology, Sydney developed this evaluation guide for their teaching staff. It contains useful information about evaluation of teaching and details some data collection processes. Proformas are provided for several of the techniques described, and a questionnaire item bank is also a useful feature.

Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) Survey
An informative site from Curtin University of Technology outlining the structure and function of the CEQ instrument including an explanation of the current core and optional scales.

Graduate Careers Australia
The official website of the Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) which provides the national results for the CEQ survey in addition to useful information and reosurces for graduates on choosing and finding a job.

Peer Review of Teaching
A nice overview of the peer review process from Flinders University outlining issues including: What constitutes peer review of teaching?, What can peers evaluate?, and How should peer review be conducted?