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The Teaching Portfolio was established in 2012 to provide engineering-focused teaching support with a goal of improving the depth, effectiveness and efficiency of engineering student learning.
Welcome
This password-protected site was established in 2019 by the Engineering Teaching Portfolio as a place for faculty teaching members to find information about what we do and how we can help you make your teaching rewarding and enjoyable! Open only to Waterloo Engineering faculty and staff, this site contains answers to frequently asked teaching questions, information about teaching development opportunities both on campus and away, course evaluation processes and results, and more. We hope that this site serves as a valuable resource in your personal and professional development.
You can choose from the main menu or click on one of the categories below to read blog posts on topics relevant to engineering education.
Please contact the Teaching and Learning team if you have any questions or comments about this password-protected site!
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News
UW Course Evaluation Project Website
The Course Evaluation Project now has its own web site:
Spring 2016 course evaluations underway
Course evaluations opened on Monday, July 4 and will close at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, July 15. Here are some best practices for instructors:
Online course evaluation trial
The University of Waterloo course evaluation project team is currently investigating moving to an online course evaluation platform. In preparation for this expected transition, Waterloo Engineering is running a small-scale trial of a campus-built course evaluation platform in fall 2015.
Blog
Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of teaching
In a recently published 2018 study, researchers undertook an experiment to examine the impact of an introductory statement drawing students' attention to the existence and potential impact of their own biases as they pertain to student course evaluations.