The Career Framework for University Teaching

The SOU Faculty Senate recently commissioned a task force on student evaluations. Like many schools, SOU is grappling with the difficulty in relying on student evaluations as a proxy for teaching effectiveness, given that they are prone to bias for gender and race, among other problems. The UK Royal Academy of Engineering, commissioned this work to create a more valid framework for evaluating teaching achievement based on spheres of influence, promotion criteria and forms of evidence. Student evaluations are only one of many acceptable forms of evidence; more significant are self-assessment, professional activities, measures of student learning and peer evaluation. Direct link to the Teaching Framework.