Transcript Proposal for A&S Course Evaluation Web Site

Proposal for an A&S Course
Evaluation Web Site
Faculty Meeting
February 21, 2006
Advantages of the Proposed
A&S Web Site
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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.
Formatting
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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.
Exceptions
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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.)
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.
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Peabody College
School of Engineering
Blair School of Music
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Owen School of Management
Vanderbilt Law School
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)
Peer Comparisons
Student managed and password-protected:
Brown University
Harvard University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
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
Features of the Web Site
Test web site