Such a portfolio would be used to evaluate faculty teaching. There are other ways to evaluate learning such as outcome assessments. It was pointed out that faculty are currently in no way limited to using only the student evaluation forms. Faculty and departments are encouraged to include their own evaluation questions or exit interviews. Some departments have intra-departmental peer review systems to evaluate teaching.
Faculty are currently in no way limited from adding material to their annual evaluation files.
Evaluation of teaching by peers and administrators. It is difficult to achieve uniformity among different disciplines. Faculty spend a lot of time working with students outside of the classroom and this is often not recognized adequately. Too much emphasis is placed on the numbers from the teaching evaluations in summary evaluations. Chairs and Deans should attend seminars offered by faculty to assist their evaluations of the faculty.