1. Update to the Faculty Senate on the approved (2015) pilot of the IDEA course evaluation instrument 1 April 20, 2016

2. IDEA Pilot: Fall semester 2016 Committee Arnaud Chevallier Provost’s Office Mike Gustin Committee on Teaching Michele Biavati Committee on Teaching Fred Oswald Dept of Psychology Betsy Barre Center for Teaching Excellence Josh Eyler Center for Teaching Excellence John Cornwell Office of Institutional Effectiveness Diane Butler IT Justin Schilke Registrar

3. IDEA pilot, more Sampling strategy – all fall courses will have Rice instrument, with a fraction of the courses doing both Rice and IDEA Faculty effort for IDEA – fill out learning objectives form Seek feedback, make recommendation: switch to IDEA, keep Rice instrument or create new instrument

4. Three primary uses of course evaluation: 1)Assist faculty in improving their teaching; 2)Assist students with relevant information as they select which courses to take; and, 3)Assist decision-makers in the case of salaries, promotion and tenure. The IDEA Committee will seek feedback from stakeholders in such processes. 4

5. The benefits of IDEA include: 1)Validated with hundreds of thousands of students, thousands of courses, and is currently used at hundreds of universities; 2)Most thorough, especially on questions of teaching and learning that the current Rice instrument does not have; 3)Responses to items on the instrument can help faculty improve teaching behavior. 4)Technology is more facile. 5)May be better fit for NTT evaluation system.

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7. 7 QUESTIONS CONSIDERED 1.Has the instrument been research validated (i.e., has it been proven, through numerous studies, to measure what it claims to measure)? 2.Is the instrument easy to complete and/or administer? 3.Do the results control for known biases (class size, student interest, discipline)? 4.Do the results provide useful, formative feedback for faculty? 5.What sorts of questions does the form ask (teaching behaviors? progress on learning outcomes? contextual questions?) 6.Can the instrument be customized? 7.Does the instrument require us to give an external company access to Rice data? 8.Is the instrument cost effective?