What has been UMRs practice with regards to student evaluation of teaching?
• Toward the end of the fall and winter semesters, the Provost’s office assembles then distributes evaluation materials to departmental offices across campus. If the department had indicated an instructor is to be evaluated, the evaluation material will include a packet of scan sheets and a packet of comment sheets for that instructor. After the students have completed the sheets, the packets are returned to the Provost’s office. The written comment sheets are forwarded to the mail center for return to the instructor after the completion of the semester. The scan sheets are forwarded to the Computer Center for processing. Once tabulated, the results are given in a confidential form to the CET at the beginning of the fall to determine Outstanding Teaching Award recipients. This is a blind selection process. The CET committee members do not see the name of instructors.
