MEASURING Teaching EFFECTIVENESS
UM Intercampus Faculty Council Task Force Report (June 18, 2018)
The University of Missouri Intercampus Faculty Council (IFC) created a task force to “examine strategies to evaluate teaching effectiveness with the primary goal of improving teaching effectiveness and student learning.” The final report of the task force describes a menu of “enhanced strategies” for assessing teaching through multiple measures, featuring reflective self-assessment and peer evaluation of instruction and teaching materials.
Peer Teaching Observation Guide, University of Oregon Teaching Engagement Program
This guide for peer observers provides a concise and concrete five-step process for conducting an effective observation of teaching, as well as a simple checklist-style rubric for use in peer observation.
USC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching provides a catalog of instruments and protocols for peer assessment of teaching, including the following: teaching observation, course design, assessment of student learning, and teaching statements. Flowcharts of formative and summative assessment of teaching are provided, and all review instruments are provided in web and print versions.
Peer Review of Teaching, University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
The University of Michigan’s CRLT provides a comprehensive set of resources for peer evaluation of teaching, curated from a variety of major university teaching centers. Besides peer review protocols and rubrics, the resource page also includes discussion of how to establish a teaching evaluation program for graduate student instructors, as well as links to scholarship about peer teaching review.