CETL provides a variety of printable resources to faculty, including forms, guidelines, and information sheets on a number of teaching and learning related topics. If you are looking for something that is not listed below, please contact us for assistance. If you would like to discuss any of the resources below with a CETL consultant, please complete our online consultation request form.

Permission is granted to educational institutions to print copies of CETL documents for internal use, provided that each copy acknowledges the authorship of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Online copies are not permitted, but links to our site are encouraged.

Core Curriculum Revision

•  Presentation on course design strategies  
•  Step-by-step: Designing courses for the revised Core   
• Core course proposals forms are on the  Core Curriculum revision website 
• Course-by-course: one-page summaries of course descriptions, learning objectives, and essential pedagogies

Course Design 

• Example syllabus template (revised Spring 2012)
• Presentation on constructive alignment 
• Examples of learning objectives
• Bloom's Taxonomy (revised 2001)  
• Bloom's Taxonomy: Model questions and key words
• Linking learning objectives to graded work  
• Linking learning objectives to learning and teaching activities  

Deep Approaches to Learning (click here to learn more)

• Summary: approaches to learning
• Extract: four components of a deep approach to learning
• Worksheet: reducing course design features that cause a surface approach to learning 
• Worksheet: increasing course design features that cause a deep approach to learning 

Example Mid-Term Student Course Evaluation Forms

We encourage you to adapt these forms to suit your own context and the kinds of questions you would like students to answer. Each link opens an MS Word document in a new window.

• Class reaction survey
• Constructive statements
• Discussion/Seminar opinion form
• Six open-ended questions
• Teacher behaviors inventory
• Three open-ended questions
• Creating your own survey form

Examples of Rubrics

• Essay rubric: holistic (Penn State U)
• Essay rubric: analytic (U of Wyoming)
• Argument Analysis rubric: holistic (Central Florida U)
• Debate rubric: analytic (Purdue U)
• Scientific papers: analytic (PJ Alaimo and J Langenhan, Seattle U )
• Class participation: analytic (B Kelly and T Huston, Seattle U)
• Annotated bibliographies: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)
• Application of theory: analytic (D Green, UCE Birmingham, UK)
• Practical Proposal: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)
• Public argument: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)