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Engaging with Evidence

Transforming Teaching Evaluation at the Department Level: Lessons from UCLA’s Holistic Evaluation of Teaching Initiative

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
Location: Mount Vernon Square - Level M3

    Primary Presenter(s)

  • Valeria Dominguez

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States

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    • Co-Presenter(s)

  • Adrienne Lavine

    Professor Emerita and Special Assistant to the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States

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    Kem Saichaie

    Executive Director
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States

How do institutions shift teaching evaluation from an exercise with questionable utility to a reflective, evidence-based practice? This session will share key findings from UCLA’s Holistic Evaluation of Teaching (HET) initiative, a campus-wide effort that has been facilitated and implemented in eleven departments to date. Presenters will unpack what makes departmental working groups effective in adapting a rubric-based, evidence-informed model of evaluating teaching. Participants will engage with strategies to support collaboration, build faculty buy-in, and balance institutional standards with faculty autonomy. The session will feature a discussion and interactive elements to support attendees in imagining how this model could be adapted on their own campuses.