In the mid 1990’s WSU undertook two major studies to reform and improve evaluation of teaching. One study examined the student evaluation of teaching process and the other looked at the entire evaluation of the teaching process.

The outcomes of these initiatives were that WSU:

• began a process to reform the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SETs) process by setting up a “2 n” committee to implement the changes suggested in the Academic Senate’s Student Evaluation of Teaching Committee Report (ASSET report) and to make other decisions as needed in the SET arena.

• mandated the use of teaching portfolio policies in the evaluation of teaching for WSU faculty. Each college was charged with developing a teaching portfolio policy to reflect the appropriate means of evaluating teaching consistent with the five critical dimensions listed in the Final Report of the Task Force on the Evaluation of Teaching and with the AAUP-AFT contract: instructional delivery, instructional design, evaluation of teaching, content expertise, and course management.

Please click here for more information about WSU’s Student Evaluation of Teaching forms, policies, interpretation, and handbook on WSU SETs and the ASSET Report.

Please click here for more information about WSU’s policy on evaluation of teaching, its use of teaching portfolios, individual college teaching portfolio policies, and the Task Force Report on the Evaluation of Teaching at WSU.

For references to Web sites with useful suggestions and information about teaching portfolios, visit our "Outside Teaching Resources" page.

 

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Last modified June 20, 2005.

 

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