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Implementation Schedule

Fall Semester 2006 Pilot

The new system was piloted in December with seven departments:  Statistics; Computer Science; Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences; and all four departments in the College of Management.  All on-campus courses from these departments were included in the pilot.

 The ClassEval website was open to students from midnight on Friday night, December 2, through midnight on Tuesday night, December 12, a period that included dead week and the first two days of finals. Reports were delivered to instructors and department heads in late January-early February.

Spring Semester 2007

All classes, both on-campus and distance education, in all colleges except Veterinary Medicine were included in the spring evaluation process. The ClassEval website was open to students during the last week of the semester through dead week, closing before finals begin, that is: from midnight Sunday night, April 15, through midnight Sunday night, April 29. A more detailed schedule is posted here. Reports were delivered to instructors and department heads in mid-June.

Next Steps and Future Enhancement

Fall 2007 – transition to Oracle server; improve reporting time; work with instructors, departments, and colleges to develop bank of questions they can use to customize their evaluation instruments.

Current Issues Under Consideration

  • Obtaining correct classes and instructors from university databases
  • incentives for improving response rates
  • Clarifying the population of classes to be evaluated.  Issues:  some 600-level courses should be in the population; piggy-backed, cross-listed, and double-listed courses; combined distance education and on-campus classes; study abroad offerings; lab sections
  • Clarifying the population of instructors to be evaluated:  percentage of responsibility, TA's
  • Questionnaire:  changes have been suggested; different questionnaire for TA's; different questionnaire for labs
  • Schedule:  should the evaluation period extend into finals week?
  • Reporting:  when an instructor is associated with more than one-department, which department head gets the report; feasibility and confidentiality of multiple combinations of reports
  • Students want to see evidence that we have used the results to improve teaching. What can we show them?

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