Friday, April 17, 2009
Online evaluations due morning of May 4
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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 distributing course evaluations for the spring 2009 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 April 20. Online course evaluations are sent directly to the students at their USIeagles.org account on Monday, April 20. 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 will be sent on April 23 and April 29 to those students who have not completed their evaluations by that date. Online evaluations will remain open until 8 a.m. on Monday, May 4. Instructors who chose traditional paper evaluations can expect to find their course evaluation packets in their USI mailboxes on Monday, April 20. These evaluations are to be completed during class sometime between April 20 and May 1. Faculty members are expected to read the instructions on how to properly fill out the course evaluations to their students and are then expected to leave the room while allowing a student proctor distribute and collect the evaluations. Students’ evaluations are kept confidential. Faculty members will receive a statistical summary report for each of their classes. Instructors 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, approximately one month after the end of the evaluation period. More information about course evaluations can be found at www.usi.edu/ir/course_evaluations.asp. Kathy Funke News and Information Services 812/465-7050 or kfunke@usi.edu |
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