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WSB Teaching, Learning & Assessment

A Toolkit for Teaching Excellence

Holistic Teaching Excellence Matrix

What defines teaching excellence? How do we benchmark, identify best practices, and measure improvement over time? There is not one metric that defines excellence; rather we think about teaching holistically and as an ongoing process of instructor exploration and development.

Teaching Evaluation at WSB

Below you will find the matrices that are used for annual reviews for both tenure-track faculty and instructors (e.g., teaching faculty, and lecturers). Contact your departmental manager for specific questions. 

Faculty Excellence Matrix
Instructor Excellence Matrix

WSB believes that no single metric measures teaching effectiveness. To provide a holistic evaluation of teaching, the WSB considers the perspectives of students, the instructor, and department and school strategies. This multifactor approach includes:

  1. Department/School benchmarks such as publications, teaching portfolio, leadership and contributions to WSB teaching community, and defined evaluations by peers.
  2. Faculty/Instructor benchmarks such as a personal teaching philosophy, professional development and course innovation, and policy alignment. 
  3. Student benchmarks based on the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) survey. The SET metric (4.0+), the response rate metric (>70%; 50% online), and an analysis of student comments are included (see the “Student Evaluation of Teaching” page for more information).