Department level analysis of learning based on SoTLCTE has been working with chairs and program coordinators to develop their use of faculty reflection on student work within routine representations of their teaching accomplishments. Our first step was developing new criteria for the KU award for Departmental Excellence in Teaching and Learning. The nomination portfolio follows the Scholarship Assessed outline of components of teaching. In the spirit of SoTL, the final section asks how the unit as a whole has changed its teaching based on what it learned from examining students' work. KU has used these new criteria for three years with great success, and departments are initiating their own review systems outside the context of the award. The Provost's Office is using this process with a dozen units for prototype analyses of student success, with an eye toward using a reflective practice model to develop and sustain goals for enhancing student learning. |
Faculty Community Around Teaching Faculty Governance Consideration of the Evaluation of Teaching |
