1. IDEA Ad Hoc Committee Report Submitted by: Andreas Veh, Diane Erickson, Nelta Edwards, Kerri Morris UAA Faculty Senate, Dec. 7, 2007

2. Committee Charge  Examine and respond to IDEA implementation issues as they arose  Examine the reliability and validity problems associated with using IDEA in small classes  Make recommendations for implementing IDEA effectively given its strengths and weaknesses

3. Problems & Questions  How do we create systems that lead to meaningful and effective evaluation of teaching?  How do we to meet the varied needs, ie, small class size, graduate courses, distance, community campus needs, etc.?  How do we to build trust about teaching evaluation?  How do we make teaching central to the University mission?  How do we truly assess the complexity of the teaching role we hold?  How do we acknowledge and assess teaching outside the face to face setting?

4. IDEA: An Opportunity  Creating a more robust system of teaching evaluation  Building a culture of trust and support for effective and meaningful teaching evaluation

5. Student Feedback Institutional Teaching Mission Contributions Fostering Student Success Syllabi and Course Materials Evaluation of Teaching A Proposed Model for Effective and Meaningful Evaluation of Teaching

6. Student Success  Support for student advancement and recognition (e.g., writing letters of recommendation and/or nominating students for scholarships and awards);  Student accomplishments (e.g., Student Showcase, Undergraduate Research Grants, students present papers at professional conferences);

7. Student Success  academic advising, chairing student committees (e.g., graduate honors or capstone);  Mentoring RAs and TAs;  Other

8. Student Feedback  Classes with at least 15 students and a 65 percent response rate may use IDEA to gather student opinions;  Small classes or a low response rate, will use an alternative assessment tool;  Faculty whose classes meet the criteria for using IDEA may also choose to use an alternative assessment tool.

9. Course Syllabi and Materials  Syllabus and at least one example of course materials for each course;  Examples of course materials are assignments, tests, lecture notes, power point presentations, etc.

10. Contribution to Institutional Teaching Mission  attending workshops to improve teaching (e.g., CAFÉ or others);  presenting workshops to UA peers about teaching;  teaching innovation (e.g., using the book(s) of the semester);  integrating new materials, integrating technology);

11. Contribution to Institutional Teaching Mission  conducting service learning;  conducting research on teaching and learning for publication in peer reviewed teaching journals;  having classroom peer evaluation, and serving as a peer evaluator for faculty peers.  other

12. IDEA Recommendations  Recommendations guided and grounded in a larger vision of effective and meaningful evaluation of teaching.  IDEA is one tool that can be used.

13. Recommendations to the Provost  One more semester during which IDEA evaluations will not be used for future P & T decisions;  Establish a summer working group to devise/adopt peer evaluation and formative student evaluation tools and samples for faculty.