Evaluation of teaching is crucial to assessment and quality assurance purposes in today’s universities. Over the past decade or more, tertiary institutions around Australia have developed local teaching quality instruments (TQIs) to measure teaching effectiveness. These instruments have different names, QOTs, SETs, TEVALs, eVALuate etc. There are around 40 of these instruments. However, they essentially all measure the same thing, namely, teaching effectiveness. Variations are possible in these instruments, and some TQIs emphasise different aspects of teaching. However there has never been any attempt to classify, compare and record the questions/statements asked by these surveys, nor the administrative processes that each institution uses. Evaluation Central aims to do this for the first time.

What is Evaluation Central?
Evaluation Central is a web-based, online repository that attempts to monitor the changing status of teaching quality instruments Australia-wide. This monitoring is not a “one-off”. It is hoped that relevant staff in universities will maintain and update changes to their TQIs on a bi-annual or annual basis. In this way a permanent and dynamic record will be available for research and evaluation purposes nation-wide.

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