1. Proposal for an A&S Course Evaluation Web Site
Faculty Meeting
February 21, 2006

2. Advantages of the Proposed A&S Web Site
Postings would occur with greater accuracy, reliability and promptness compared to the current SGA web site.
A VUnet ID will be required for access.
Improved management of the site with appropriate restrictions governing access.
A disclaimer will be added relating to the importance of looking at several sources of information in making a decision about a given course.

3. Formatting
Results for Questions 1-9 and 15 will be included for each course, except as noted below.
Data will be presented as histograms rather than means and SDs.
The number of students enrolled and the number responding will be displayed.
Access will be permitted to one course at the time.
Data mining will be difficult.
Goal of making 3 academic years of data available to students.

4. Exceptions Written comments by students will not be included.
A course will not be included if there is less than a 50% response or fewer than five students responding.
A junior faculty member may petition the Dean through his or her department chair to withhold course evaluation data.
Any faculty member may also petition the Dean through his or her department chair for compelling reasons (e.g. family emergency, illness, newly designed course, taking over a course in mid-semester, etc.)

5. Other Vanderbilt Colleges have found our Online Course Evaluation System and our proposed Course Evaluation Web Site useful and are planning on or considering adopting them.
Peabody College
School of Engineering
Blair School of Music
Owen School of Management
Vanderbilt Law School

6. Peer Comparisons Yes, publicly accessible: Rice University
University of Chicago
Yes, password-protected:
Columbia University (some departments)
Georgetown University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Washington University in St. Louis
Yale University
(50% of questions are accessible to students)

7. Peer Comparisons Student managed and password-protected:
Brown University
Harvard University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University

8. No Student Access to Course Evaluations:
Peer Comparisons
No Student Access to Course Evaluations:
Cornell University
Dartmouth University
Duke University*
Emory University
Notre Dame*
University of California-Berkeley*
UCLA
University of Michigan
* online web site under discussion

9. Features of the Web Site
Test web site