TA Evaluation Process

The primary purpose of the evaluations is to give you feedback on your teaching and to help you enhance the effectiveness of your teaching. The evaluations are also used in making subsequent decisions about hiring and salary.

Early TA Evaluation: New TAs teaching for the first time are evaluated by their supervising instructor or the Undergraduate Program Director early in the semester. You will be contacted to determine a good time for the evaluation to take place.  A sample of the Early TA evaluation form is provided in Appendix D.

End-of-semester Student Evaluations.  All teaching personnel (instructors and TAs) are evaluated at the end-of-semester.  These evaluations are often administered in the lecture section, even though you have been teaching a lab or discussion section.  To ensure anonymity of the respondents the instructor and TA should not be in the room when the evaluations are completed, and the forms should be delivered directly to the Department office. A numerical summary of the quantitative evaluation will be provided after grades have been submitted, and the written comments will be available for your inspection early in the next semester.  The form used for student evaluations is provided in Appendix G.

End-of-semester Instructor evaluation.  At the end of the semester the supervising instructor will complete a TA evaluation using the form provided in Appendix H.  You may request a copy of that evaluation.