1. Room: P2-26 (SEU at City East)
Welcome!
Student Evaluation: Requirements for evaluation and strategies for ethically engaging with students about evaluation
Date: 20 April
Time: to 12 PM
Room: P2-26 (SEU at City East)

2. Student Evaluation Agenda Administrative side of MCE
Help ……Mycourseexperience
also
Other things you can do…
Not: “Dealing with feedback”

3. Starting points Know its not a perfect tool
Whole heap or language eg ‘student satisfaction’…doesn’t help
Response rates are low…..heap of arguments about which students respond…
Yet it carries significance

4. Just for interest

5. Brief History Used to be two ..still hear this terminology
SET………. Student Evaluation of Teaching
Voluntary
Only you could ‘see’
CEI ……….Course Evaluation Instrument
Rule: every course must be evaluated each time it is run ……usually but not always meant a CEI……problem
Response rates low…too many questions and too many instruments
MyCourseExperience was born: started with 7 questions now there are 13

6. Administration side of things: use the formal “Help Page”
Found through
Teaching technologies
Direct link

7. Big Points
The system creates both sets (Course and Teacher) evaluation questions at the beginning of the study period (Not released…created)
If the CC doesn’t ‘do’ anything it opens 30 days before the end of the SP
Will close LAST day of the study period
BUT these dates can be changed by the CC….must be open for a minimum of 1 week
Teacher evaluations ..Automatically established for all staff associated with the course
Can be ‘deactivated’
Should not be deactivated without the permission of the teacher being evaluated
Note 1: Deactivation is not possible if responses have been submitted. A Head of School request for evaluation deletion must be logged with the Help Desk.
Note 2: All deactivations are logged and a report to Heads of School can be generated on request.

8. Timing Action Trigger Evaluations open date
End of study period minus 30 days
invitation to Course Coordinator to select optional questions
14 Days before evaluation open date
reminder 1 to Course Coordinator if no optional questions are selected
11 Days before evaluation open date
reminder 2 to Course Coordinator if no optional questions are selected
8 Days before evaluation open date
Question selection ends
When the first response is received
invitation to students to complete evaluation
Evaluation open date
First student reminder
3 Days after the evaluation open date
Second student reminder
7 days after the evaluation open date
Evaluation close
Last day of the study period

9. Core Course Questions
Overall, I was satisfied with the quality of this course.
I have a clear idea of what is expected of me in this course.
The assessment items assisted my learning in this course
I have received feedback that is constructive and helpful.
The learnonline course site resources were of a high quality.
Overall, what are the strengths of this course?
Are there any ways this course could be improved?

10. Core Teacher Questions
Overall, I was satisfied with the performance of the staff member.
The staff member supported my learning.
The staff member helped me to understand key concepts of the course.
The staff member helped to make the course interesting.
What were the best aspects of this staff member’s teaching?
How could this staff member improve their teaching?

11. Who can view
Head of School access
The Head of School Access page provides real-time myCourseExperience course and teacher evaluation data for Heads of School.
Course evaluation results for all offerings in the selected study period
Teacher evaluations for all teaching staff associated with the course in the selected study period
The Teacher Search result provides
Teacher evaluation results for the nominated teacher in the selected study period
Course evaluation results for all courses associated with the teacher in the selected study period

12. The theory is anyone in a direct line above you
Who can view?
The theory is anyone in a direct line above you
Course Coordinators can view:
 Course evaluation responses
 Teacher evaluation responses for instructors in their course teaching team only
Instructors can view:
Responses for their own teacher evaluations only
Heads of School, Deans Teaching & Learning and Divisional Pro Vice Chancellors can access teacher evaluation data using resources in the Restricted Student Evaluation of Teaching Folder in BI Reporting.
Program Directors can request reports through their Head of School who will lodge a VIP Request with Business Intelligence and Planning.

13. The Maths
Strongly disagree
-100
Disagree
-50
Neutral
Agree 50
Strongly agree
100
So a score of 50 means every last student agreed
I find it odd that a score of 50 represents 100% approval

14. That was the admin part
Questions so far?

15. A34 access to students and staff Assessment GPA Retention rates
Interview teaching staff
Peer Partnerships
Don’t forget…Discipline context
Other forms of evaluation
Focus groups with students

16. Strategies for mycourseexperience
Why do we wait till the end? If a student is failing there should be no shock
Same for us..we should know
We wouldn’t wait till the end if it was our research
Problem with asking direct questions…Power imbalance..
Strategy 1: Establish a weekly feedback related to THEM ..Self assessment
Strategy 2: Define the questions..establish meaning and connect to learning
Strategy 3: Exit questions
Creating opportunities to allow students to signal there is a problem: if its formative assessment then its likely to work
Other examples

17. So what is a good score?