Objective 1: Test and disseminate a “visible knowledge mapping” strategy for developing institutional consensus about “good practices in teaching and learning” (a consensus that will then be used to design local course evaluation procedures that reflect institutional and programmatic values.)  

Objective 2: Engaging students in their role as evaluators.  

Objective 3: Giving administrators tools and information to encourage the formative use of course evaluations, while still providing information that can be used for personnel decisions.  

Objective 4: Developing new, web-based technologies that make administration of a multi-tiered evaluation process possible. 

Objective 5: Providing item banks of validated questions to make development of multi-tiered surveys easier. 

Objective 6: Disseminating lessons learned through an online community of practice.

In meeting these six objectives, this project will play a major role in encouraging and supporting formative evaluation of teaching and learning, and will encourage institutions to focus on asking questions that reinforce “best practices” in teaching and learning that can be mapped to desired learning outcomes.  It is our belief that university/college teaching will be improved when a campus “culture of assessment” around teaching and learning exists that is clearly linked to the achievement of improved learning outcomes.  Each of the objectives of the project is designed to achieve this goal.