Evidence shows that teachers and lecturers should regularly reflect on their teaching behavior to improve their teaching skills. (e.g., Lombarts et al., 2009). In third-level education institutions, like Universities, the evaluation of teaching in higher education has become a standard instrument to assess the quality of academic education. Theoretically, lecturers can take advantage of this student evaluation of teaching to self-assess their own behavior. However, these universal tools (1) are

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... mainly designed for summative and, thus, judgmental purposes (e.g., Hounsell, 2003), (2) often fail do address criteria of good and effective teach-ing (e.g., Johnson, 2000), (3) they are rarely tailored to specific forms of teaching (e.g., Spooren et al., 2013), (4) and they do not provide specific interventions tailored to potential gaps. Consequently, additional services are required to evaluate teaching concepts more individually and in advance to prevent potential problems. At the University of Bern, the Education Development Unit is developing a digital self-assessment tool that aims to support lecturers in the preparation of lectures (SELEVOR). SELEVOR is being conceptualized as questionnaire embedded in the Universities' learning management system which can be accessed by all members of Swiss third-level education institutions. At its heart, SELEVOR evaluates teaching concepts based on seven principles derived as synthesis from recent theories and models in psychology of learning and teaching (among others, Biggs & Tang, 2011; Hattie, 2012): (1) constructive alignment, (2) target group orientation, (3) problem focus, (4) choice of content, (5) elaboration, (6) adaptive teaching, and (7) teacher engagement. Since lectures are focused, central concepts from communication and rhetoric served as an additional source. Each principle is measured with five items on a four-point likert scale. Users receive immediate feedback on how well their concepts align to each of the seven principles as well as specific suggestions, [...]