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

2. Goals for SETs: Provide meaningful student feedback2
Goals for SETs:
Provide meaningful student feedback
concerning instructional success/failure
5/29/12 2

3. Goals for SETs: Provide meaningful student feedback3
Goals for SETs:
Provide meaningful student feedback
concerning instructional success/failure
Provide insight for improving student
interaction
5/29/12 3

4. Goals for SETs: Provide meaningful student feedback4
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
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5. Challenges with the SET:5
Challenges with the SET:
Student Bias—consequences in P&T,
compensation, assignment 5

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Role of the Faculty Senate9
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

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

11. Role of the Faculty Senate
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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

12. Role of the Faculty Senate
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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

13. Today’s Discussion Immediate issues with SET administration
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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

14. 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

15. 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