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Proposal for an A&S Course Evaluation Web Site. Faculty Council Meeting February 6, 2006. Advantages of the Proposed A&S Web Site. Postings would occur with greater accuracy, reliability and promptness compared to the current SGA web site. A VUnet ID will be required for access
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Proposal for an A&S Course Evaluation Web Site Faculty Council Meeting February 6, 2006
Advantages of the ProposedA&S Web Site • Postings would occur with greater accuracy, reliability and promptness compared to the current SGA web site. • A VUnet ID will be required for access • Improved management of the site with appropriate restrictions governing access. • A disclaimer can be added relating to the importance of looking at several sources of information in making a decision about a given course.
Formatting • Results for Questions 1-9 and 15 will be included for each course, except as noted below. • Data will be presented as histograms rather than means and SDs. • The number of students enrolled and the number responding to each question will be displayed. • Access will be permitted to one course at the time. • Data mining will be difficult. • Goal of making 3 academic years of data available to students.
Exceptions • Written comments by students will not be included. • A course will not be included if there is less than a 50% response. • A junior faculty member may petition the Dean through his or her department chair to withhold course evaluation data. • Any faculty member may also petition the Dean through his or her department chair for compelling reasons (e.g. family emergency, illness, newly designed course, taking over a course in mid-semester, etc.)
Peer Comparisons Yes, publicly accessible: Rice University University of Chicago Yes, password-protected: Columbia University (some departments) Georgetown University Johns Hopkins University Northwestern University Washington University in St. Louis Yale University (50% of questions are accessible to students)
Peer Comparisons Student managed and password-protected: Brown University Harvard University Princeton University Stanford University University of Pennsylvania University of Virginia Vanderbilt University
Peer Comparisons No Student Access to Course Evaluations: Cornell University Dartmouth University Duke University* Emory University Notre Dame* University of California-Berkeley* UCLA University of Michigan * online web site under discussion
Features of the Web Site SGA's website Test web site #1 Test web site #2