Seldin has categorized the material of a teaching portfolio into three areas, suggested by the list below. You might begin construction of your own portfolio by generating or collecting as many of these items as you can. Like the teaching portfolio, student evaluations of a course and instructor can be used for summative or formative evaluation. End of semester evaluations which are used primarily for performance review are generally summative. Mid-term evaluations are generally used formatively to give an instructor feedback, so that the course might be tailored to better address student needs.
Instructors have several options available to collect feedback from their students.
BEST maintains a bank of questions from which instructors and departments may select to design their own evaluations. On request, TRC staff will meet with you to help interpret the feedback. MultiOp can be administered on paper scan sheets or via the campus computer network. Some departments have developed their own questionnaire and ask their instructors to use this form in order to facilitate comparisons. Check with your department to see if there is one.