Teaching
Student Evaluation of Instruction
Approved by the Faculty January 10, 2005 at Faculty Senate
and February 17 at General Faculty Meeting. Approved
by the Provost February 7, 2005.
Applies to all full-time and part-time faculty who are not
represented by collective bargaining. Faculty in the
SOM and SOPP are excluded.
All faculty members shall be evaluated in each teaching quarter
and at least once each calendar year in each different course
taught using an approved University Student Evaluation of
Instruction form. The University Administration shall solicit
input from the Non-Bargaining Faculty Affairs Committee on
all changes to the form before they are finalized.
All information both numerical and comments portion will be
sent to the faculty member and the Department Chair/Dean.
The evaluation should be administered at the end of the quarter,
preferably in the tenth week but no earlier than the ninth
week. Ample time should be given during class time
for a student volunteer to administer the evaluation. The
faculty member shall not comment upon the evaluation, administer
it or be present during its administration.
If a faculty member believes that there are compelling reasons
why an evaluation of a specific course in a given quarter
should not be considered in evaluation decisions, he or she
may submit a written request for exclusion to the Department
Chair/Dean. The Chair/Dean shall respond to this request
in writing. Both the request and the Chair's written
response shall be kept in the department or college office.
The University recognizes that student evaluations of teaching
are important indicators of teaching effectiveness, but numerical
scores from these evaluations alone neither confirm nor deny
an individual's effectiveness. Therefore, the Chair/Dean
shall consider additional factors besides such numerical
scores in evaluating a faculty member's teaching. Consequently,
low/high numerical scores that are below/above department/college
averages do not confirm ineffective/effective teaching.
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