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Teaching evaluation

Students' evaluations of their teaching are an important tool in the development of courses, learning environments and teaching formats, and in the long term they contribute to the development of the degree programme. The aim of teaching evaluations is to assure and develop the quality of individual teaching and supervision processes with the aim of supporting the students’ learning outcome.

Teaching may begin by balancing expectations. The students complete a digital end-of-course evaluation, and the statements from this evaluation are discussed with the lecturer. Based on the discussion, a summary memorandum is drawn up and signed by a student representative and the lecturer. It is possible to carry out a mid-term evaluation, and this is actually quite common. A mid-term evaluation provides an opportunity to adapt teaching along the way, e.g. adding or focusing literature and the related teaching activities.


The schools at Arts have developed detailed guidelines for their evaluation policies, all of which follow the common guidelines for teaching evaluation at Arts. The schools’ guidelines are on the right-hand side of this page and are also available on the websites of the boards of studies.
At evaluere og udvikle undervisningen er et fælles ansvar:

  • Students are responsible for participating in teaching activities and associated evaluation activities.
  • The head of department is responsible for ensuring that an evaluation is carried out, and for any follow-ups based on a school's evaluation policy. School policies must comply with the faculty's framework provisions.
  • The boards of studies are responsible for formulating principles for teaching evaluation and for discussing overall feedback from the heads of department.
  • The director of studies is responsible for writing a summary of the individual reports and for following up on teaching evaluations.

Tools

Teaching evaluations in the quality assurance system

Assessment of learning outcomes of teaching is indicator 4 in the quality assurance system. Students must rate their assessment on a scale from 1 to 5, where the "Very great benefit" response category represents the value 5 and the "No benefit" category represents the value 1. This indicator shows the average student responses to the statement: “I rate the overall benefit of the course as...”