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Standard 4:
Creating an Organization Committed to
Learning and Improvement
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4.7: The institution, with significant faculty involvement, engages in
ongoing inquiry into the processes of teaching and learning, as well as into
the conditions and practices that promote the kinds and levels of learning
intended by the institution. The outcomes of such inquiries are applied to
the design of curricula, the design and practice of pedagogy, and to the
improvement of evaluation means and methodology.
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UC Santa Cruz Summary of Evidence |
To ensure instructional quality the senate’s Committee
on Teaching (COT) works in partnership with Vice Provost and Dean of
Undergraduate Education, and the Center for Teaching Excellence, to
provide policy guidelines, models, and necessary support to departments
and individual instructors to evaluate both their courses and their
teaching. Student evaluations of instructor’s teaching and course design
are used extensively throughout the University in the personnel process,
and they provide individual instructors with useful information that
effects positive changes in teaching and learning. Future plans include
broader use of existing student course evaluations to provide feedback to
faculty curriculum oversight committees with respect to instructor
teaching effectiveness. Committee on Educational Policy plays an active
role in formulating educational objectives by periodically reviewing
general education requirements and recommending occasional modifications
for Senate general approval. CEP also approves course for inclusion on
general education lists.
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