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Evaluating and Enhancing Teaching

End-of-Term Student Evaluations

UD Online Course Evaluation
Web-based course evaluation application that is based on sound assessment practices and that can be customized by instructor/department and/or college. The confidential, anonymous online system collects student responses and reports those results to the appropriate constituents. Results are not published on the Web for public review. Questions: Joy Lynam.

End of Course Ratings: Course Evaluation Item Pool
In addition to your required departmental course rating form, you may want to use the items we have selected from the Flashlight Current Student Inventory to assess active and collaborative learning and the use of instructional technology. The selected sample of survey items are indexed by various aspects of instruction and are available to University of Delaware faculty to supplement existing evaluation instruments.

IDEA Form (Individual Development and Educational Assessment), IDEA Center, Manhattan, Kansas
The IDEA student rating system is available from the CTE to supplement your departmental and college forms. Published by the IDEA Center, a not-for-profit corporation, the instrument is based on instructional research, addresses teacher behaviors that lead to selected instructional goals, student progress on these goals, and provides space for you to add 25 additional items to tailor your course. The IDEA Survey Form (long form) scores are adjusted for student motivation, class size, student effort, course difficulty, and student work habits--factors that impact student ratings data. The IDEA Center also provides research publications on student ratings.


Teaching Portfolios

Teaching portfolio materials, Tom DiLorenzo, Psychology, 2005. (rtf)


Promotion and Tenure

Promotion and Tenure (.doc)
Summary of annual faculty panel discussions: Planning ahead and preparing for the promotion and tenure process; putting the dossier together and the role of external reviewers; and addressing promotion and tenure policies and procedures effectively.

Promotion & Tenure Process at UD by Eric Kmiec, Chairperson, University Promotions & Tenure Committee; Professor Biological Sciences - presentation at 2007 P&T panel discussion (ppt)
P&T Advice by Yan Jin, Professor, Plant & Soil Sciences - presentation at 2007 P&T panel discussion (ppt)
P&T Advice by Raul Lobo, Professor, Chemical Engineering - presentation at 2007 P&T panel discussion (ppt)

Faculty Handbook: Promotion and Tenure