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The institution, with significant faculty involvement, engages in ongoing inquiry into the processes of teaching and learning, as well as into the conditions and practices that promote the kinds and levels of learning intended by the institution. The outcomes of such inquiries are applied to the design of curricula, the design and practice of pedagogy, and to the improvement of evaluation means and methodology. |
| UC Davis Summary of Evidence |
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The most important campus unit devoted to the process of teaching and learning is the Teaching Resources Center (TRC), which has already been featured Criteria 2.8 and 3.4, which overlap with this one. The TRC is an administrative unit, but the director is a faculty Academic Senate member. It runs a multitude of programs for all instructors. For example, it promotes and supports instructional innovation through Undergraduate Instructional Improvement Program (UIIP) grants and in hosting the Summer Institute on Technology in Teaching (SITT). It also offers in-class evaluation and individual consultation. The technology part of TRC operations will be elaborated upon more fully in our educational effectiveness review. We have already described the teaching program review process. It is very concerned with the conditions and practices of teaching and learning within the context of each program as it is individually reviewed. If weaknesses are identified, recommendations for improvement are made to the department or the dean as appropriate. |
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