Teaching Evaluation Faculty Support Resources
Engaging with UO's System for Improving & Evaluating Teaching
To evaluate teaching at the University of Oregon means using multiple sources of evidence to determine whether a faculty member’s teaching is professional, inclusive, engaged in reflective practice, research-informed, and any other standards explicitly incorporated into an academic unit’s review and promotion policies. The Office of the Provost outlines policies and procedures for teaching evaluation.
The Teaching Engagement Program plays no role in the formal evaluation of a faculty member’s teaching. Instead, it’s dedicated to supporting faculty development in professional, inclusive, engaged, and research-informed teaching. TEP also provides support to help faculty and units engage meaningfully and reflectively with UO’s Continuous Improvement and Evaluation of Teaching System.
These pages describe the key, university-wide sources of evidence that UO uses to improve and ultimately evaluate teaching. And they offer tools and resources for conducting the Student Experience Survey in class, looking at results in a dynamic dashboard, deepening peer review, developing unit policies that match your unit's teaching aspirations, and more.
More than 'I Know Good Teaching When I See It'
To mitigate bias and ensure evaluation supports the development of UO’s teaching culture, the University of Oregon, led by the University Senate, grounds teaching evaluation in a broad but substantive definition of what good teaching means. UO's Teaching Evaluation Standards are defined on the Office of the Provost website and TEP offers lots of examples of the many ways faculty enact these standards. No single source of evidence should be used to determine teaching quality at UO. University faculty read for evidence across three sources.