Center for Teaching and Learning
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) integrates pedagogy, technology, and assessment to encourage effective and innovative practices in instruction and evaluation. CTL offers colloquia, workshops, training, consulting, and online resources to promote best practices in instructional design, evidence-based teaching practices, educational measurement and evaluation, instructional and course assessment, and emerging technologies.
The center is also a faculty resource for course management tools, including Blackboard, and supports faculty development with instructional technologies and design, new graduate student and faculty orientation, multimedia tools, and media production techniques. Research and benchmarking are crucial to CTL’s objectives, and are supported by the Academic Transformation Speaker Series and studies related to innovations in course instruction and design.
The Student Testing Services group within CTL coordinates University testing programs, including examinations for course credit and placement, and serves as a test center for many examinations offered worldwide, including the College Level Examination Program, the Medical College Admissions Test, the Texas Educators Certification, the Graduate Record Examinations General Test and Subject Tests, the Law School Admission Test, the Miller Analogies Test, and the Praxis Series (Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers). Information about academic placement and credit by examination as well as worldwide test programs is available at the CTL Web site, http://www.ctl.utexas.edu/programs-and-services/student-testing-services/ .