Transforming the Evaluation of Teaching (TEval)
Lead Campus
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Partners
University of Kansas
University of Colorado, Boulder
Michigan State University (research team)
Description
This RAC focuses on faculty reward and evaluation processes as a key lever in the promotion of widespread reform of higher education practices. The project, called TEval, is an NSF-funded initiative to transform approaches to teaching evaluation, drawing on a common framework grounded in two decades of scholarship on scholarly teaching and its evaluation and peer review of teaching. Since 2016, PIs on three campuses, the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Kansas, and University of Massachusetts Amherst, have been leading interventions working toward the development, adoption and sustainable use of new approaches to evaluating teaching. The PI from Michigan State is studing the process of transformation within and across the three campuses, creating case studies examining what approaches work most effectively under what circumstances. Yearly knowledge exchange meetings create learning communities to provide further means for improving teaching, and foster dissemination of the findings to other BVA institutions and beyond.
The TEval initiative has helped shape a growing national dialogue about the transformation of teaching evaluation, and in June 2023 hosted a Summit at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Headquarters in Chevy Chase, MD that has spawned an emergent coalition of higher education institutions and organizations to accelerate efforts to revamp teaching evaluation.
Learn more about how TEval is advancing our understanding of institutional change processes by studying and supporting the adoption and integration of new approaches to evaluating teaching at the TEval website.
Contact
Gabriela Weaver
gweaver@umass.edu