External Links

Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide for Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Instructors
Description: "Succinct, self-contained, self-instructional, web-based modules that introduce a broadly applicable range of techniques” for use in college or university courses.

URL: http://www.flaguide.org

Classroom Assessment Techniques by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Iowa State University
Description: Introduces CATs, outlines their multiple uses and shows different types.

URL: http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching-resources/classroom-practice/teaching-techniques-strategies/check-student-learning

Peer Review of Teaching

The Peer Review of Teaching: Collegial conversations / Enhancing scholarly practice (Australian Learning and Teaching Council)
Provides downloadable, printable resources and video resources related to peer review.

http://www.peerreviewofteaching.org/

Peer Review of Teaching Project - University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Provides a sample of documents used in peer review, portfolio examples, a description of the peer consultation process, a newsletter and links to additional resources.

http://www.courseportfolio.org/peer/pages/index.jsp

Peer Evaluation of Teaching - Flinders University
Intended to help instructors clarify their purposes for participating in peer review of teaching.

http://www.flinders.edu.au/teaching/quality/evaluation/peer-review/peer-review_home.cfm

Prior Learning Assessment Resources - Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA)
Selected resources, with a Canadian focus, related to Prior Learning Assessment (PLA).

http://capla.ca/other-rpl-resources/

Creating Rubrics: Tools You Can Use - Linda Starr, Education World
Explains how rubrics can guide students and support instructor assessments. Included: Three online tools for creating rubrics.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr248.shtml

Rubrics and Rubric Makers - teAchnology
A wealth of rubric tools – easy to customize and practical.

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

Assessment and Rubrics - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Explore for a wide range of example rubrics and how to articles.

http://www.schrockguide.net/assessment-and-rubrics.html

Self-Evaluation - Monash University
Tools to use and questions to pose in the self-evaluation of teaching.

http://www.opq.monash.edu.au/mqu/evaluations/self-evaluation.html

Peer Observation of Teaching - University College of Dublin
Presents techniques for self-evaluation of teaching.

http://www.ucd.ie/teaching/academicdevelopment/peerobservationofteaching

Some Resources on Student Evaluation of Teaching - Russell A. Hunt, St. Thomas University
List of books and articles (last updated December 2002) about student evaluations of teaching.

http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/evalbib.htm

Student Evaluation of Teaching: Methodological Critique - Robert Sproule
This paper outlines two arguments that “challenge those who would advocate a continuation of the exclusive use of raw SET data in the determination of ‘teaching effectiveness’ in the ’summative” function’”. The paper also seeks to answer the question: “In the face of such challenges, why do university administrators continue to use these data exclusively in the determination of ‘teaching effectiveness’?”

http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/441

Teaching Goals Inventory - Centre for Teaching, University of Iowa
Take the Teaching Goals Inventory online and automatically see your scores.

http://fm.iowa.uiowa.edu/fmi/xsl/tgi/data_entry.xsl?-db=tgi_data&-lay=Layout01&-view

The terms teaching portfolio and teaching dossier can be used interchangeably.