SENATE DOCUMENT #9 AMENDED REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON STUDENT EVALUATION OF FACULTY John Stevens, Chairman Tom Cochran Michael Gillum We recommend that the faculty adopt the following policies for student evaluation of courses and instructors: I. Objectives of the evaluation: A. To give the instructor information useful in the improvement of course design and teaching methods. B. To provide for students an avenue of communication to the instructor and department. C. To aid the department in evaluating its programs. D. To provide the department chairman with a summary of student opinion which will serve as one element in his evaluation of the instructor. II. Designing and establishing the evaluation: A. Each department will design its own evaluation. Mr. Felder of Institutional Research is knowledgeable in the area and is willing to help. B. The evaluation should be designed to give information useful in the improvement of course design and teaching methods as well as student opinion about the effectiveness of the instructor. C. Evaluation procedures should be designed to cover non-typical offerings within the department, such as internships, laboratories, composition courses. D. Students will be involved with the design of the evaluation. E. The evaluation must be approved by the members of the department. F. Copies of the evaluation plan, the department's procedures for administering it, and any instruments to be used will be placed on file in the library, the office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and the department. G. This new evaluation process is to begin at the end of Term II, Spring II, 1978-79. H. The office of Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs should be responsible for issuing reminders to the department chairman about administering the evaluation each term. III. Administering the evaluation: A. The department chairman is responsible for ensuring that the evaluation is done in each course and section for each instructor according to the established procedures. B. Results will be compiled and stored by the department. C. Results will be made available in some form to the instructor's department chairman, and if appropriate, to the supervisor of any program (such as Humanities) within which the course is offered. D. The results are to be used by the instructor and the department chairman. E. Each department's evaluation program will be reviewed annually by the Academic Policies Committee to determine if evaluations are being conducted regularly and in conformity with the spirit of these guidelines. The intent of this amendment is to remove from the proposal, language which suggests that scaled or multiple-choice questionnaires are the appropriate technique for evaluating all courses and activities. It is moved that the following deletions and substitutions be made to the "Report of the Committee on Student Evaluation of Faculty." II. A. Delete: last sentence B. Delete: the word "form." C. Delete: "Separate sections should be designed". Substitute: "Evaluation procedures should be designed". F. Delete entire section and substitute: Copies of the evaluation plan, the department's procedures for administering it, and any instruments to be used will be placed on file in the library, the office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and the department. III. B. Delete sentence and substitute: "Results will be compiled and stored by the department." C. Delete entire section and substitute: "Results will be made available in some form to the instructor, the instructor's department chairman, and if appropriate to the supervisor of any program (such as Humanities) within which the course is offered. John G. Stevens Michael Gillum