Student Course Evaluation Procedures
Sent on behalf of Chris Brown, Vice Provost for Faculty Development
The University of Kansas values effective teaching. Although student evaluations are only one component of an effective teaching assessment strategy, they are an important component and must be given due consideration. We remind you that University policy requires that teaching faculty should be rated each semester by students in all courses with five or more students.
University policy also requires that the forms are administered and collected under controlled conditions that ensure students' anonymity.
To meet this requirement, instructors who distribute evaluation forms in classroom settings should:
- Announce the date when course evaluations will be distributed at least one class session in advance.
- Leave the room during the administration of the student evaluations.
- Ask a student or other departmental representative to collect the evaluations and deliver them to the department office for tabulation.
If you are teaching an online or hybrid course OR your department/school collects all course evaluations online, the KU Center for Online and Distance Learning can assist you with administering the online version of the assessment.
Departments are reminded that instructors should have access to student evaluations only after final grades have been submitted.
A full description of procedures is found in the KU Policy Library at http://policy.ku.edu/provost/student-eval-procedures-for-admin.
J. Christopher Brown, Ph.D.
Professor
Geography and Atmospheric Science
Environmental Studies Program
Vice Provost for Faculty Development
