UPA posts reports for individual instructors that can be accessed with a Unity ID only by the instructor and the head of the department offering the course. Instructors may access their reports here; department heads may access reports here. These reports will remain on the web, so that instructors and heads can access reports for multiple semesters.
There will be two reports for individual instructors. One summarizes the close-ended results. Here is an example. The other report consists of all responses to the open-ended questions, verbatim, but without identification of the respondent.
Consistent with the University Regulation on the Evaluation of Teaching, reports generated from ClassEval are confidential. They are considered part of the instructors' personnel records and will be forwarded to the dean or provost for RPT or other purposes only by the instructor or her/his department head.
Upon request, UPA may also prepare additional analyses using aggregated data from the core question database and information in other university databases. Examples might include comparisons across units, class times or locations, gender or race, levels of student performance, and section size. As appropriate, these comparisons will be stratified by course level, student level, and/or mode of delivery. Inappropriate or unlawful requests will not be fulfilled. UPA will seek guidance from the EOTC as appropriate. Under no circumstances will an instructor be identifiable in such reports. Data will be reported only in the aggregate.
Individually identifiable information – both students’ identities and their responses, and results describing instructors – are part of student and personnel records and are treated as confidential, consistent with state and federal law. Instructors cannot be able to isolate a single student’s responses, and users other than instructors and department heads cannot be able to isolate a the results for a single instructor.
As with any other protected personnel information, deans or others with a valid “need to know” will retrieve results for individual instructors from the department head.
The dataset containing all responses to the 14 common core, closed-ended questions will be retained indefinitely to permit additional analyses as described above. Responses to open-ended questions will be destroyed after the data have been distributed to department heads; no central repository of open-ended responses will be maintained.
All ClassEval data will be protected from creation to archival storage using the same strategies used to protect other confidential student and personnel information maintained by the university: