Student Evaluation
of Teaching: Challenges
And Solutions
Faculty Senate Forum
Thursday, May 31 2012
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Goals for SETs:
Provide meaningful student feedback
concerning instructional success/failure
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Goals for SETs:
Provide meaningful student feedback
concerning instructional success/failure
Provide insight for improving student
interaction
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Goals for SETs:
Provide meaningful student feedback
concerning instructional success/failure
Provide insight for improving student
interaction
(Historically) Provide a “scale” to compare
student satisfaction with instruction
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Challenges with the SET:
Student Bias—consequences in P&T,
compensation, assignment
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Challenges with the SET:
Student Bias—consequences in P&T,
compensation, assignment
Faculty and Administrators misusing process
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Challenges with the SET:
Student Bias—consequences in P&T,
compensation, assignment
Faculty and Administrators misusing process
Meeting the need for anonymity (esp. in
small enrollment courses)
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Challenges with the SET:
Student Bias—consequences in P&T,
compensation, assignment
Faculty and Administrators misusing process
Meeting the need for anonymity (esp. in
small enrollment courses)
Desire to gain student feedback on issues
not directly linked to quality of instruction
(e.g., assessment of meeting learning
outcomes)
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Role of the Faculty Senate
Faculty controls the SET instrument
and how it may be used in P&T.
Cost is borne by the Office for Academic
Affairs; we need a cooperative relationship.
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Role of the Faculty Senate
Immediate challenges:
• Assessment of Teaching;
• Student anonymity in small enrollment courses
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Role of the Faculty Senate
Immediate challenges:
• Assessment of Teaching;
• Student anonymity in small enrollment courses
The Bacc. Core Committee is running a
voluntary pilot to add questions concerning
perceptions about SLOs in Synthesis courses
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Role of the Faculty Senate
Immediate challenges:
• Assessment of Teaching;
• Student anonymity in small enrollment courses
The Bacc. Core Committee is running a
voluntary pilot to add questions concerning
perceptions about SLOs in Synthesis courses
The Senate President and EC have approved
an interim approach to low enrollment courses
and respondent anonymity pending
Senate approval
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Today’s Discussion
Immediate issues with SET administration
(Stefani Dawn):
• Small enrollment courses
• Slash courses and reporting
• Inclusion/exclusion of identifying student
demographic information
Bacc. Core assessment pilot: voluntary
vs. mandatory and use of data
Where to go with formative vs. summative
evaluation
Task Force Recommendations
• Costly to implement Pilot Project requested
by Task Force
• Quarter System makes Formative Reviews
a Challenge
• Many Instructors currently conduct
Formative Assessment
Evaluation of Teaching
●Complex Challenge ( OSU Faculty Senate has been
discussing this for decades! )
●Need multiple tools to assess, evaluate and support
Teaching Excellence
●Some tools already in place
●Peer Evaluation of Teaching
●Center for Teaching and Learning