Teaching Effectiveness Framework

At the U, we recognize the need to evaluate the effectiveness of our teachers. The Martha Bradley Evans Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) is leading a campus-wide initiative to implement a Teaching Effectiveness Framework to define, evaluate, and reward teaching excellence. We are joining our peer institutions in creating a common campus-wide approach to teaching assessment that is disciplinarily adapted and enacted, and centrally supported.

For many years we have relied too heavily on limited and partial sources of evidence to assess teaching effectiveness, mainly student feedback. Now, leveraging decades of scholarship, our Teaching Effectiveness Framework uses seven rubric dimensions and multiple sources of evidence to describe and identify effective teaching across all disciplines, levels, and modalities. Departments are encouraged to adapt the rubric to fit disciplinary expectations and to weight areas most meaningful to the discipline. CTE will provide centralized, multidimensional assessment tools to support the evaluation efforts of our faculty and administrators.