Assessment
Teaching as Well Being (UT System)
On April 11, 2024, three Provost's Teaching Fellows presented at the final session of the "Teaching as Wellbeing" mini-conference series, hosted by the UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers in collaboration with UT System faculty developers. The series served as a monthly think tank about the relationship between teaching, learning, and wellbeing for educators and educational developers across UT system.
Improved Student Evaluations of Teaching
Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are one of the official means to gauge the performance and effectiveness of an instructor at higher-education institutions. They are often used for promotion/tenure decisions as well as to guide faculty into becoming effective instructors. But the question is whether, as currently implemented at UT Austin, SETs are reliable indicators of (a) effective teaching, and (b) long-lasting, impactful learning?
Academic Culture in McCombs School of Business
Project goal:
Elevate excellence in the classroom through new strategies to understand, measure, and improve rigor in all courses
Project objectives:
Each class is designed and delivered with the expectation of students learning at high levels
Each student is supported so they can accomplish learning at high levels
Each student demonstrates learning at high levels
Outcome:
