Student Survey Data (n = 342) Would you take the evaluations as seriously as you do now?

Student Survey Data (n = 342) Would others take the evaluations as seriously?

Student Survey Data (n = 342) Would you be more or less likely to complete the evaluation?

Staff Survey Data (n < 336)

Responses OnlinePaper Response RATE Affected by incentives.Affected by attendance. Response QUALITY Affected by time and circumstance committed by students. Affected by time allotted by professor. Incentives Public Database Withhold grades Early grades Early registration Cash fine Delayed grades Extra-credit Faculty request/pressure

Ownership OnlinePaper Can be downloaded and kept by individual faculty. Can be copied and kept by individual faculty. Copy kept off-site by evaluation company; governed by contract. Electronic copies (initially) under faculty control. Subject to cyber theft, but probably no more so than current personal data and grades that are electronically stored. Subject to conventional loss, theft, fire, difficult to disseminate or use in pedagogical research.

Content Flexibility OnlinePaper Provides options for faculty members to add individual questions. Has no standard option whereby faculty members can add individual questions. Encourages creation of analyses, summaries, statistics, cross-tabs, trends, and graphs to chart student responses. Faculty are responsible for creating their own analyses, summaries, statistics, cross- tabs, trends, and graphs. Facilitates comparisons between faculty, programs, class type. Scantron summaries report on individual classes, making it more difficult to compare faculty, programs, class type.

Access OnlinePaper Can be viewed by anyone with password. Can be viewed anyone with physical access to faculty/department offices. Can be limited by formal agreement with administration, including Faculty Policy Manual. Summaries under individual faculty control.

Price OnlinePaper Initial Set-up Fee $5,965 $5,932 - Machine $2,354 - Software $8,286 Yearly Service Charge Average $7746 $845 - Maintenance $1,563 - Paper forms $2,408 Staff time 3 2 months FTE per year ($8,633) $25,900 3 Yrs x 3 semesters per year x 360 Hrs + Typing ($33,652) $100,956 3-Year Lifecycle $55,104$116,466