UConn Resources

• “Response to the TLA Task Force Revised Report by Provost Peter Nicholls 23 August 2007” (3 page  )
• “Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Task Force Revised Report 1 August 2007” (15 page  )
• “Charge to the TLA Implementation Committee by Provost Peter Nicholls 13 December 2006” (1 page  )
• “Report of the Task Force on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment 8 December 2006” (17 page  )
• “Email to the Faculty by Provost Peter Nicholls 15 March 2006” (1 page  )
• “Charge to the TLA Task Force by Provost Peter Nicholls 15 December 2005” (1 page  )

Additional Resources

• “Student Ratings of Teaching: A Summary of the Research” by William Cashin (6 page  )
• “Student Ratings of Teaching: Recommendations for Use” by William Cashin (5 page  )
• “Student Ratings of Teaching: The Research Revisited” by William Cashin (9 page  )
• “A Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard” by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard University (86 page  )
• “A Model for Evaluating and Improving Teaching” by Ken Bain in National Teaching & Learning Forum (14 page  )
• “What Do They Know, Anyway?” by Richard Felder (3 page  )
• “What Do They Know, Anyway? II. Making Evaluations Effective” by Richard Felder (3 page  )
• “The Myth of the Superhuman Professor” by Richard Felder (9 page  )
• “Ending the Disconnect Between the Student Evaluation of Teaching and the Improvement of Teaching: A Faculty Developer's Plea” by Michele Marincovich (15 page  )
• “Report on Tenure-Related Processes at the University of Colorado” by Advisory Committee on Tenure-Related Processes report (431 page  )
• “Report of the Modern Language Association of America Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion” by Modern Language Association of America (100 page  )
• “Using Student Evaluations to Improve Teaching” by Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching (4 page  )
• “What Do Student Ratings Mean?” by Kathleen McKinney in The National Teaching & Learning Forum (4 page  )
• “Preparing for Peer Observation: A Guidebook” by The Center for Teaching Effectiveness, The University of Texas at Austin (29 page  )
• “A Short Guide to Evaluating Teaching” by Elena Berman (38 page  )


• “From Teaching to Learning – A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education” by Robert Barr and John Tagg (14 page  ) ( NetID login required for this article )
• How People Learn: brain, mind, experience, and school edited by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking; Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences Education, National Research Council, 1999. which is available at http://books.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ or by Clicking Here