Classroom Teaching Evaluations

Instructor reports of the College's approved student evaluations must be included in the evaluation file for all semesters for both reappointment and tenure.  Thus, each file should include evaluations representing the full span of time since the last evaluation. (Note that the tenure file must also link to the pre-tenure file, which will thus automatically include student evaluations from that period.)

Student comments should not be included on these reports, nor should any informal evaluations given by the instructor.  

When logging into the "My Student Evaluations" software, the "Benchmark" viewing option from the "Viewing/printing options" menu on the right side shows all significant statistical data with no student comments.  You can then simply select "Print page" from that same menu and select "Save as a PDF."  There are also a number of apps that allow you to convert a webpage into a PDF.  Fireshot is one such option (free!) that allows for easy conversion of your online evaluations into PDFs with no printing/scanning.  

Collect PDFs of all your online evaluation summaries into a Google Drive folder titled "Student evaluations," then attach to the student evaluations page in your site using "Insert" and selecting the appropriate "Drive Folder."  Remember to include your evaluation summaries from the semester before your file is due (often easy to forget for spring reviews, as fall reports are not made available to instructors until into winter break).  

Note that the by-laws do not explicitly require this, but it has been customary to prepare a summary table of student evaluation data for the ease of your evaluators' reading that includes the following comparison points:

• course and section

• semester and year

• number of students enrolled

• number of students responding

• averages scores for the first two questions (popularly known as "Q1" and "Q2")

• if desired, any other averages you find important to highlight

This table may be included with the "Classroom Teaching evaluations" and linked in the self-report, or just included in the self-report, but the former may be preferable since the self-report is already a difficult document to write concisely.

The narrative evaluations and online student evaluations should be discussed in the self-report. While it's certainly not necessary to comment on each set, the candidate is encouraged to look for overarching patterns, and point to moments when feedback and/or course redesign influenced future approaches to the classroom. 

If you participated in the "Student Feedback on Teaching Pilot Study," you may use the student feedback data in your evaluation file, but participating faculty do not have to share this student feedback data in any evaluation.