[Faculty] Fwd: New student evaluations of teaching: register to participate in a second pilot by March 19

Mon Mar 17 18:57:06 PDT 2025

Dear Faculty Colleagues:

Thanks to those of you who have already signed up for the second pilot for
the new student evaluations of teaching. Participants in the pilot will get
a first-hand look at the new system and tool before it goes live in Fall
2025, and we will get to test out the new system one more time before full
implementation. To ensure everyone has a chance to sign up, *we have
extended the deadline until Friday March 21. *Please sign up here
<https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ihenRwrrpk9e4K>.
Details are in the trailing forwarded message  below.

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From: Barry Mishra <barrymi at ucr.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Subject: New student evaluations of teaching: register to participate in a
second pilot by March 19
To: <faculty at scotmail.ucr.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

In February 2018, UCR’s Academic Senate convened an ad hoc committee to
review our current 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: 1)
producing a more equitable and useful tool for evaluation of teaching
effectiveness and pedagogical improvement, and 2) 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 student evaluations of teaching.

Subsequently, all instructors were invited to participate in a pilot of the
new SET in Spring 2024. Feedback from faculty and students who participated
in the pilot (as well as from faculty who did not participate in the pilot)
was collected and used to inform further adjustments to the SET and
technology. An analysis of the feedback along with the joint committee’s
recommendations were included in a final report
<https://live-ucr-assess.pantheonsite.io/sites/default/files/2025-02/teic-final-report-to-senate-oct-2024.pdf>
to the Senate.

At its November 18, 2024 meeting, the Senate Executive Council voted to
“endorse mandatory adoption of the new SET as a campus-wide replacement for
the old iEval questions [and] usage of the new software.”

The next step towards campus-wide replacement will be a second pilot of the
new SET instrument in Spring 2025 along with the new Qualtrics-based
software that will replace the old iEval technology. Unlike the first
pilot, this second pilot will not include a round of feedback and
modifications prior to campus-wide adoption in Fall 2025. Rather, its
purpose is to allow faculty time to test out and become familiar with the
new SET before its mandatory adoption. However, the Senate is currently
determining a new oversight structure for SETs so that future suggestions
may be considered in a timely manner.

If you are teaching in Spring 2025 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 19. If you have questions that are not addressed on the website,
please email Director of Evaluation and Assessment Omar Safie at
omar.safie at ucr.edu.

On behalf of the Transition of Student Evaluations of Teaching Committee,

Barry Mishra – Committee Chair and Vice Chair of the Academic Senate

Annie S. Ditta – Chair of the Academic Senate Committee on Educational
Policy

Stephen Kane – Vice Chair of the Academic Senate Committee on Educational
Policy

Jack Eichler – Past Member, Teaching Evaluation Implementation Committee

Jennifer Hughes – Past Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Evaluation of Teaching

Dan Jeske – Vice Provost for Academic Personnel

Richard Edwards – Executive Director, XCITE Center for Teaching and Learning

Ken Baerenklau – Associate Provost

Omar Safie – Director of Evaluation and Assessment

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the
ones who usually do."
Dr. Birendra (Barry) K. Mishra MS, PhD
Professor, Anderson Graduate School of Management AIS
Vice-Chair Academic Senate Riverside Division
University of California, Riverside
Anderson Hall 217
Riverside, CA, 92521
Voice-(951)-479-2329
http://soba.ucr.edu/directory/faculty.html?netid=barrymi
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