Teaching evaluation by students

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Why ?

The UNIL CSE (Centre for Teaching and Learning) offers teachers the possibility to ask feedback from students to evaluate their courses, in order to gauge the students' learning experience.
This approach is in line with a desire to value teaching as much as research at UNIL.

The evaluation of teaching is the individual responsibility of the teachers. In this context, we would like to bring your attention to Directive 3.22, brought into effect from the beginning of the 2021-22 academic year. We recommend the specific reading of article 7: each member of the teaching staff must ensure that all the teaching for which he or she is responsible is subject to an EEE (evaluation of the course by students) at least once within a period of 3 years, subject to the periodicity provided for by his or her status.

Teachers are not obliged to include the results of the evaluation of their courses in their self-evaluation report (with the exception of conditional tenure-track Assistant Professors). Instead, they must include their analysis of the results of the evaluation (what is working well, what is working less well, what is being done to consolidate/improve the situation, which is communicated to the student/s).

How ?

There are two different types of evaluations:

• Programme evaluations (or part of programmes designed to evaluate a set of courses are carried out by the School of Biology).
• Individual evaluations concerning a course and a teacher in particular are carried out by the Centre for Teaching and Learning.