Labor Resource Center Evaluation Materials

This section of the labor resource center offers different kinds of evaluation documents: classroom observation forms, evaluation forms, self-evaluation/self-report forms, handbooks from universities or departments that articulate evaluation philosophies/principles, and protocols and practices. If you have materials to share or ideas about what you’d like to see here, contact us at CWPALRC@gmail.com. We’d like examples of instruments for evaluation of online teaching, and examples of documents/instruments people have used to make strong cases for crediting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Self-Evaluation

• Allegheny College advice on preparing self-evaluations(2004)
• Community College Teaching Self-Evaluation Form
• Fayetteville State Self-Evaluation Form [This instrument is helpful because it includes questions about teaching, service, and scholarly activities.]
• Florida State University, "Self Evaluation of Faculty Performance in Teaching, Research, and Original Creative Work, and Service" (2010) [Note: A research-extensive university focused much more on scholarly production]
• Georgetown University Research Faculty Annual Report Form
• Reed College Faculty Self-Evaluation Form
• University of Dayton Guide to Creating and Using/Evaluating Teaching Portfolios
• University of Dayton Self-Evaluation Rubrics

Evaluation of Research/Scholarship/Scholarly-Creative Activity

University of Washington Rubric for Evaluation of Faculty Research  [Note: Presumably there’s a separate rubric for evaluating creative activity.]

Evaluation of Service

Berkeley Academic Senate Guidelines on Evaluating Service

Evaluation of Teaching

• Cornell University Teaching Evaluation Handbook [This handbook is an extensive description of evaluation philosophy and practices in use at a specific institution, but it’s full of use terms and models for how to think about your evaluation scheme from the ground up.]
• Rider University Department of English Guidelines for Evaluating Adjunct Faculty [Note: As many institutions, this instrument only pertains to teaching.]
• Rochester Institute of Technology, “Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness” (2012) [This guide is from the Wallace Center, which is the institution’s library/media center/teaching-learning center.]
• Sample Student Evaluation Instrument (2016) [This is a very expansive instrument.]
•  (2016)Sample Student Evaluation Instrument [The creators of this instrument call it “Teaching Essentials”; it’s a much more stripped down questionnaire.]
• University of Saskatchewan Student Evaluation Instrument 
• Wayne State University Peer Classroom Observation Instrument
• University of South Florida Instructor Classroom Observation Form (updated 2018)
• University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Pre-Observation Survey (2019) [Optional first step in the annual classroom observation cycle of UMAss Dartmouth's First-Year English Program.]

Departmental/University-Wide Evaluation Guidelines/Handbooks

• Florida State University, “Successful Faculty Performance in Teaching, Research and Original Creative Work, and Service” (2010)
• Missouri State University Faculty Handbook, Chapter on Evaluation Guidelines
• Rider University Department of English Promotion and Tenure Guidelines (2005)
• University of Nevada-Reno Academic Faculty Evaluation Toolkit (2007)
• Tidewater Community College Full-Time Teaching Faculty Evaluation Plan
•  (2002)University of California, Appointment and Promotion Review and Appraisal Committee Guidelines [Note: the UC system is unionized, and this document represents protocols drawn from at least two different collective bargaining agreements.
• Rider University, Guidelines for Evaluation of Adjunct Faculty(2011)

Other Evaluation Resources/Projects

• Scholars for Ethical Review: From their site: "Welcome to this collaborative enterprise. We aim to help each other do institutional review with both generosity and rigor. We’re hoping to develop best practices tips plus templates for reader’s reports, peer review, tenure review, book review, citation, and more. To join our conversation, go to the Discussion page. To read our information, check out Documents. Eventually we will post Templates and Guides. Scholars for Ethical Review was founded by Grace Lavery (University of California at Berkeley) and Talia Schaffer (CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY)."