Students are sent email notifications and reminders in their Canvas inbox. When they open the message and click on the evaluation link, they will be taken directly to the evaluation.
A few days before the evaluations begin, students will receive a notification email. On the first day of the evaluation, students receive another email with a Survey Summary. When students click the "Go to Survey" link and it takes them directly into the evaluation. No login is required.
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Answer: The information from Online Course & Instructor Evaluations (OCE) helps improve the quality of instruction because it provides anonymous student feedback to course directors and instructors. OCE results also provide indirect evidence of student learning that is useful for accreditation purposes.
Please note that Online Course & Instructor Evaluations (OCE) are completable utilizing any WIFI-enabled input device utilizing "templates" managed by Information Technology Services. The forms referenced in the links below simply present the current items utilized on the course and instructor evaluation forms.
Answer: Traditional item analysis results are forwarded to departmental representatives who then forward the results to individual instructors. Item analysis results include the item mean, standard deviation, number of valid responses, and percentages of students selecting each response option.
Answer: If your instruction in more than one course was evaluated by your students in a quarter, this affords you with the opportunity to look across the courses you taught to see if any patterns emerge. That is, are the same items rated high across courses? If so, then students perceive these as areas of strength.
Answer: When the evaluation forms were revised in the fall quarter of 2007, one item from the Course Evaluation form and two items from the Instructor Evaluation form were designated by the UAAC as being equivalent for historical comparative purposes. These items are presented in the table below.
Answer: On a quarterly basis, each college dean receives reports that list item analysis results in the form of descriptive statistics (that is, mean, standard deviation, and number of valid responses) for each course and instructor in the college evaluated that quarter.
Answer: According to Midwestern University policy, "Student participation in the evaluation of courses and instructors using the approved MWU course and instructor forms may require authenticated login, but otherwise must be confidential." So individual responses cannot be changed once submitted - all reporting data is anonymous.