Educational Effectiveness
What does it mean to teach effectively at Maryland?
Educational Effectiveness helps faculty and academic leaders use learning data to answer that question — and to continuously improve the experiences and outcomes of every student.
More than good teaching, it's a shared institutional commitment
Educational effectiveness is the ongoing practice of asking whether your teaching, curriculum, or program is working for all students, and using evidence to improve it. It lives at every level of the university, from a single course to a department's degree requirements.
At the course level
Are students learning what you intend? Which students are struggling, and why? What happens when you change something? Educational effectiveness gives individual instructors a structured way to answer these questions with evidence, not instinct alone.
At the program and institutional level
Are your curriculum and advising systems equitably supporting all students through to graduation? Academic leaders use educational effectiveness to understand patterns across cohorts, identify structural barriers, and make evidence-based decisions at scale.