of Teaching: Challenges Student Evaluation of Teaching: Challenges And Solutions Faculty Senate Forum Thursday, May 31 2012 1

Goals for SETs: Provide meaningful student feedback 2 Goals for SETs: Provide meaningful student feedback concerning instructional success/failure 5/29/12 2

Goals for SETs: Provide meaningful student feedback 3 Goals for SETs: Provide meaningful student feedback concerning instructional success/failure Provide insight for improving student interaction 5/29/12 3

Goals for SETs: Provide meaningful student feedback 4 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 5/29/12 4

Challenges with the SET: 5 Challenges with the SET: Student Bias—consequences in P&T, compensation, assignment 5

Challenges with the SET: 6 Challenges with the SET: Student Bias—consequences in P&T, compensation, assignment Faculty and Administrators misusing process 6

Challenges with the SET: 7 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) 7

Challenges with the SET: 8 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) 8

Role of the Faculty Senate 9 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. 9

Role of the Faculty Senate 1010 Role of the Faculty Senate Immediate challenges: Assessment of Teaching; Student anonymity in small enrollment courses 10

Role of the Faculty Senate 1111 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 11

Role of the Faculty Senate 1212 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 12

Today’s Discussion Immediate issues with SET administration 1313 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 13

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