Transforming Teaching Evaluations One Department at a Time

The process for assessing teaching effectiveness within an engineering department has been thoroughly overhauled based on the Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) initiative from the University of Colorado Boulder.The TQF initiative, along with subsequent projects like TEval.net, aims to enhance educational practices by employing effective evaluation and assessment techniques.Departmental guidelines have been established to assist faculty in selfassessing their teaching effectiveness (self-voice), gathering and analyzing constructive feedback from student evaluations (student voice), and collaborating with colleagues to assess teaching through a multi-dimensional observational approach (peer voice).Additionally, templates are provided to compile assessment data and feedback for both formative uses, such as enhancing course delivery or curriculum revision, and summative uses, including annual faculty evaluations, as well as tenure and promotion decisions.This initiative is a work in progress, with further discussions of implementation strategies to come.