student evaluation of teaching: introduction to class climate
DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to provide the basic knowledge, procedures, and hands-on experience required for the successful implementation and operation of online course evaluations with the Class Climate software. Topics for this workshop include: introduction to Class Climate, creating questionnaires, capturing responses, analyzing, and sending results. This course is recommended for personnel responsible for creating, managing and data collection for course evaluation surveys.TRANSCRIPT
Center for Excellence in Learning and Technology
Student Evaluation of Teaching: Introduction
to Class ClimateLaura Bestler, Instructional Support Specialist
294-5357 • [email protected]:
http://www.celt.iastate.edu/elearning/Class Climate:
https://classclimate.its.iastate.edu/
Objectives
• Introductions• Class Climate as a tool• Creating questionnaires• Capturing responses• Analyzing• Sending results
Paper Course EvaluationsPros Cons
Done in-class - good response rates Very time consuming (preparation before and after administration)
Students feel anonymous May take 4-12 weeks for faculty to get results
Resource intensive to type up answers to open ended questions
Lots of room for error (scanning errors, student errors-using pen, etc., illegible comments, handling errors: students can tamper with data or forget to return, people often put forms in a packet for the wrong class, etc)
Students may be apathetic and just fill in anything
Costly (cost of forms, pencils, bins, envelopes, work hours, scanner)
Bad for the environment (uses lots of paper)
Students may not take time on open ended questions because of time
Online Course EvaluationsPros Cons
Immediate results Lower response rate? (effects of use of incentives?)
Far less room for error (no lost forms, scanning issues)
Has to be done on the students’ time (unless technology allows for in-class)
Far less time consuming Anonymity concerns
Far less costly (no scanner, paper forms, much less work hours,etc.)
Students who have not attended class are now able to give opinions
Green- no need for paper
More student comments
Flexibility for questions/scales
Students who take the time to do them have an opinion
Students are able to fill them out 24 hours a day
Less time intensive for administrators
Effective Timeline based on Dillman’s Delivery Sequence FileTimeline Action
3 weeks before finals week Course is populated
3 weeks before finals week Press Release to University Relations & Iowa State Daily
2 weeks before finals Dean / Provost / President sends out email to student body reminding students about the importance of the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET)
2 weeks before finals Surveys are generated, and sent to students
3-4 times during survey period
Reminder emails are sent to students who have not taken the survey
End of survey Friday before finals or before course grades are due
Creating Questionnaires• Login to:
http://classclimate.its.iastate.edu
• Go to the Questionnaires tab• Click on [Create questionnaire]• Click on [VividForms Editor]• Enter Abbreviation (NO SPACES) & Title
Generating Surveys
• IMPORTANT: Are your courses populated? To run a survey they have to be populated by [email protected]
• Go to [Generate Surveys]• NOTE: Select Online Survey and Use Time
Control – this will allow you to [Schedule Tasks]
Scheduled Tasks
Consider:• How long the survey will be available?
IMPORTANT: Include when the survey will end within the email text of the survey
• How many times you want reminders to be sent out?
• When will the survey end?
1 2 3
1. PSWD to respondents
2. Online survey reminder
3. Finish survey
Unable to edit until
you[Activate] the task
1PSWD to Respondents
IMPORTANT:Include the date
the survey will be available until
<b>This survey will be available until ____ </b>
Click [Save]
1PSWD to Respondents
<b>This survey will be available until ____ </b>
Click [Save]
2Online Survey Reminder
IMPORTANT:Include the date
the survey will be available until
Start dateReminders
Click [Save]
3Finish Survey
IMPORTANT:Do NOT
auto-report
Start date
Leave unchecked
Apply to allMULTIPLE SURVEYS
Apply to allMULTIPLE SURVEYS
Scheduled Tasks
Click on [Scheduled tasks] – it will display the course, instructor, survey along with the tasks:• Open = still occurring• Incomplete /
Incorrect = Click on the [Pencil icon] to edit
• Executed = Completed
Analyzing Data
• Change your role to [Report Creator]
• Click on [Folders]• Click on [Create new Folder]• Name folder [Summer 2011]
Sending Results
• IMPORTANT: Discuss with your Department Chair how the reports should be sent to Instructors
• Change your role to [Administrator]
• Click on [Batch Events]