The Assessment of Teaching Initiative provides consultations to schools, departments, and individual faculty.

Schools and departments can request consultations to:

• Discuss how to define teaching effectiveness or articulate the characteristics of effective teaching in their discipline
• Identify or create tools to conduct formative or summative assessment of teaching
• Plan facilitated discussions or calibration exercises with faculty
• Request or plan a workshop or training for their school or department on teaching assessment. Example topics: how to compose teaching survey questions, conduct peer observations, mitigate bias in teaching assessment, offer peer feedback, or use teaching effectiveness data development
• Discuss or get assistance interpreting teaching assessment results
• Plan data-informed teaching improvements

To request a school or department consultation, email the Assessment of Teaching Initiative.

Instructors can also request consultations for recommendations and feedback on:

• syllabus design
• course objectives
• organization and sequencing of course content and assignments
• assessments
• instructional activities
• grading schemes
• use of technology to support student learning
• integrating innovative instructional techniques

To request an individual instructor consultation, please complete this form.