A survey on evaluation practices in teaching and learning centres

Abstract

There is general consensus that teaching and learning centres have a positive impact on promoting and supporting a culture that values teaching and learning, yet there is limited evidence on how centres evaluate their work. For this purpose, a survey was developed and administered to the directors of 88 Canadian centres; 46 of which completed the survey. In this paper, we share centres’ approaches to evaluation that emerged from the survey findings and the artifact analysis. By raising awareness of evaluation approaches, we are better positioned to identify further opportunities to develop a more systematic and coherent approach to evaluation.

Keywords:

• Evaluation
• programming
• services
• teaching and learning centres

Acknowledgments

We are thankful to all participants who completed our comprehensive survey. We are also grateful to the Educational Developers Caucus of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for supporting this project through their grant program.