Thursday, November 20, 2008
Course evaluations are coming your way
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With a goal of improving teaching effectiveness, the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment at the University of Southern Indiana is preparing to distribute course evaluations for the fall 2008 semester. Course evaluations allow students the opportunity to rate course and teaching effectiveness. The evaluation has 14 questions with a section for open comments. These surveys provide faculty important feedback on their teaching content and style. Once again, faculty members were able to choose between paper and online evaluations for each of their courses. Distribution of both online and paper versions begins December 1. Online course evaluations are sent directly to the students at their USIeagles.org account on December 1. Faculty members opting for online evaluations are asked to remind their students to check their email accounts and encourage them to complete the evaluations promptly. Reminder emails are sent to those students who do not complete their evaluations within one week. Online evaluations will remain open until 8 a.m. on December 15. Those who chose traditional paper evaluations can expect to find their course evaluation packets in their USI mailboxes on December 1. These evaluations are to be completed during class sometime between December 1 and December 12. Faculty members are expected to read to their class the instructions on how to properly fill out the course evaluations and are then expected to leave the room while allowing a student proctor distribute and collect the evaluations. Statistical summary reports will be sent directly to faculty members for each of their classes. Those opting for online evaluations will receive their reports the day after grades have been released to students. Results from courses evaluated using traditional paper evaluations will be released as soon as all paper evaluations have been processed. More information about course evaluations can be found online at www.usi.edu/ir/course_evaluations.asp. Institutional Research and Assessment 812/465-7000 or www.usi.edu/ir |
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