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Evaluating & Documenting Your Teaching

York's Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning (SCOTL) has published helpful guides for teaching assessment and evaluation, and teaching documentation.

The major resources offered by York are listed below. You can find more useful resources in our Ideas About Teaching section, under Evaluating Teaching: Recommended Reading, and Evaluating Teaching: Online Resources.

  • Guide to Teaching Assessment and Evaluation (SCOTL, York University) (PDF 58K)

    This guide provides instructors with starting points for reflecting on their teaching, and advice on how to gather feedback on their teaching practices and effectiveness. As well, the guide provides guidance on how teaching might be fairly and effectively evaluated, which characteristics of teaching might be considered, and which evaluation techniques are best suited for different purposes.

  • Teaching Documentation Guide (SCOTL, York University) (PDF 52K)

    This document provides guidance for developing a teaching dossier to document an instructor's teaching achievements for use in administrative decision-making, such tenure and promotions (T&P) submissions, teaching award nominations, applications for leave fellowships and teaching development grants, etc. In addition, the guide may contribute to good teaching by stimulating self-analysis and self-development as a teacher.

  • Senate Policy on Student Evaluation of Teaching (York University)

    University guidelines for designing and administering student evaluations of teaching to assist in the following: for faculty members in monitoring their effectiveness as teachers, for departments in monitoring the quality of their curricula, for informing decisions regarding tenure and promotion, and for identifying exceptional teachers for teaching awards and documenting exceptional teaching.

  • Online Teaching Evaluation Resources (SCOTL, York University)

    A compilation of resources that have sample forms and/or questionnaires and reviews of the literature on teaching evaluations.