[Faculty] Spring 2024 pilot for new student evaluations of teaching

[Ken Baerenklau]

Dear Colleagues,

In February 2018, UCR's Academic Senate convened an ad hoc committee to review our Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs). These evaluations are also commonly referred to as iEval, which is the name of the IT system which supports the evaluation process each quarter. The ad hoc committee's main priorities were to review policies, procedures, and mechanisms for how teaching is evaluated; establish new policies and procedures for accurate and reliable evaluation; and review iEval for its efficacy and recommend changes to maximize student participation and provide faculty with constructive feedback on their teaching.

The ad hoc committee issued its report<https://live-ucr-assess.pantheonsite.io/sites/default/files/2023-12/20-21.%20CR.%20Ad%20Hoc%20Comm%20on%20Eval%20of%20Teach%20-%20report.pdf> in 2021, at which time the Provost charged<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YtfG22Lwwp-kWOIgy8cAAFlbfLqTcE-J/view?usp=drive_link> a joint Senate-administrative committee to implement the ad hoc committee's recommendations. The joint committee's work focused primarily on producing a more equitable and useful tool for evaluation of teaching effectiveness and pedagogical improvement, and facilitating the submission of multiple forms of teaching effectiveness via eFile. The joint committee completed the bulk of its work<https://live-ucr-assess.pantheonsite.io/sites/default/files/2023-12/TEIC%20response%20to%20Senate%20Oct%203%202023.pdf> in October 2023, including a round of Senate consultation that informed modifications to the new SET instrument.

The next step in this process will be a pilot of the new SET instrument along with a new Qualtrics-based IT system that will replace the old iEval technology and provide greater reliability and functionality. The pilot is scheduled to take place in Spring quarter. Instructors who choose to enroll their courses in the pilot will not be expected to include the new SET results for those courses in their eFile.

If you are teaching in Spring 2024 and would like to learn more about the pilot and/or register to participate, please visit this website<https://assess.ucr.edu/spring-2024-set-pilot>. The deadline to register is March 8. If you have questions that are not addressed on the website, please email one of the joint committee co-chairs: ken.baerenklau at ucr.edu<mailto:ken.baerenklau at ucr.edu> or yingbo.hua at ucr.edu<mailto:yingbo.hua at ucr.edu>.

On behalf of the joint committee,

Ken Baerenklau and Yingbo Hua
Co-chairs

Cc:         Dan Jeske, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel
Sang-Hee Lee, Senate Chair
Elizabeth Watkins, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

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