Common use of Administration of Student Evaluations Clause in Contracts

Administration of Student Evaluations. (a) Student evaluations will be obtained through questionnaires, administered in such a way as to afford all the students in a given course or class a reasonable chance to respond. Such questionnaires will be designed to assess the Member's overall effectiveness as a teacher, the wording of which will be determined by Senate. Any questionnaire used for the purposes of this Article must be approved by the JCAA. (b) With each questionnaire a separate sheet of paper will be provided for students to make detailed written comments. The sole purpose of these comments is to assist the Member in evaluating all aspects of the course. These comments will be returned unexamined to the Member in accordance with (d) below. (c) Up to twenty (20) minutes of scheduled class time, in the last two (2) weeks of a course will be used to fill out the questionnaires. The Member will not be present while questionnaires are being filled out. No questionnaire will contain any indication of the identity of the student filling it out. After questionnaires have been completed, they will be placed in a sealed envelope, which will not be opened until final grades for the course have been approved by the appropriate ▇▇▇▇. (d) The responses to student questionnaires will be opened and aggregated in such a way as to present a fair and accurate picture of the opinions of the respondents. (e) Where data from student questionnaires are used, a mean, standard deviation, frequency distribution, and number of eligible respondents will be provided. (f) Before data derived from student questionnaires are used, they will be presented to the Member concerned, complete, in accord with the provisions of this Article and in written form, sufficiently in advance of their being used for any purpose to allow the Member to respond to them in writing.