UCDT

Evaluation Principles

The UCDT implementation plan called for the evaluation team to work closely with the curriculum development team to create a meaningful evaluation plan. The development of the evaluation plan, activities, and products was guided by four major principles:

1. A formative prospective dominated evaluation activities and was used to identify and to develop relevant indicators for improving UCDT activities.

2. To ensure that these efforts are maximally useful information, evaluation became an integral part of UCDT activities rather than last-minute add-ons.

3. Given the broad scope of UCDT goals and activities, the evaluation team used multiple approaches to understanding UCDT's impact on macro (institutional) and micro (individual) outcomes within a diverse educational community.

4. In addition, every effort was made to use (adapt) existing sources of evaluation data (for example, the student-ratings of instructor effectiveness provided by U of M's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching) to collect data.