Teaching Evaluation Readiness Assessment (TERA): Development of a Tool to Measure Faculty Readiness for Advancing Departmental Teaching Evaluation Practices.

ABSTRACT: Inadequate teaching evaluation practices undermine a department's ability to encourage, recognize, and reward effective teaching. Adopting more robust and equitable evaluation practices can address this, but faculty often worry their colleagues will resist such changes. We describe the development of the Teaching Evaluation Readiness Assessment (TERA), a survey to measure faculty readiness for reforming departmental teaching evaluation practices. The TERA is grounded in the readiness for change framework from organizational management, which stipulates components that contribute to productive engagement with an organizational change. This survey is designed to measure the extent to which faculty: (a) see value in teaching evaluation reform for themselves and their department, (b) feel thei

SUBMITTER: Ericson HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12930260 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature