Committee Charge (from 11/20/08 F. S Committee Charge (from 11/20/08 F.S. Minutes) The Faculty Senate affirms the paramount importance of the accuracy of the campus teaching evaluation system, both for the continual improvement of teaching and for accuracy in administrative procedures and consumer information. Recognizing that rapidly changing technologies and public interests continually alter the teaching environment, the Senate further charges the President to appoint an ad hoc faculty committee to review and recommend to the Faculty Senate such improvements in the current system as the committee may find appropriate.

Committee Report The committee plans to initiate a small pilot program to collect information on the viability of an electronic system of evaluations. Faculty participation in the pilot program will be voluntary.  The program will look into the efficiency, response rates, confidentiality, and effectiveness of electronic evaluations. So far, the Ad Hoc Committee for Teaching Evaluations has been effective at streamlining the current process of administering evaluations using scanned bubble sheets. We have recommended changes that have dramatically Decreased the number of misread and misplaced evaluation packets via changes to the way we administer and process the paper evaluation forms.  Using a pilot program to test the feasibility of electronic evaluations is one step towards our goal of continuous improvement in the evaluation process.