Course Evaluation Framework

To ensure that course evaluations provide instructors, academic administrators, and students with meaningful and relevant feedback, U of T’s Course Evaluation Framework applies a cascaded assessment structure that acknowledges the need for both broad-based and granular assessment across the various levels of the institution.

Specifically, course evaluation forms are comprised of items that reflect core teaching and learning priorities, which apply to all courses at U of T; divisional items that reflect teaching and learning priorities within a specific division (e.g. Faculty of Arts & Science); departmental items that reflect teaching and learning priorities within a specific department (e.g. Computer Science); and finally, individual instructor items that reflect teaching and learning priorities within a specific course (and are selected via the Institutional Item Bank).

As a part of our work, we undertook a study of the reliability and validity of the institutional items at the University of Toronto. The results of which can be found here:

• University of Toronto Course Evaluation Interpretation Guidelines for Academic Administrators
• University of Toronto Cascaded Course Evaluation Framework: Validation Study of the Institutional Composite Mean (ICM) (2018)