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Committee on Teaching Evaluations 

            a.  Purpose:

                        i.  to maintain familiarity with current research on teaching effectiveness, which includes both the implications of learning theory as applied to higher education and the practical consequences of evaluation systems in use here and elsewhere, and to maintain familiarity with the validity and reliability of evaluation systems

                        ii.  to oversee the various procedures developed for evaluation, to research the results, to develop norms based upon relevant experience at the university and institutions nationally, and to promote the proper use of the results of evaluation, in light of the goals of academic excellence

                        iii.  to promote and facilitate both the formative and summative use of teaching evaluation, including peer evaluation

                        iv.  to draft proposals for legislative actions and submit them to the senate for consideration when the duties listed above lead to ideas for improvements to the present system 

            b.  Membership:  as in III.A.7. above, plus the chief academic officer or designee, one dean selected by the Deans’ Council, one undergraduate student member, and one graduate student member.

                        Faculty            

                                                to 5/31/07                    Monica Hartmann (CAS Division 4)

                                                                                            Tamara Kaiser (EESW) 

                                                to 5/31/08                    Tom Tommet (CAS Division 3)

                                                                                            Dan Mac Namara (College of Business)                                           

                                                to 5/31/09                    W. Matthews Grant (CAS Division 2) 

                                                to 5/31/10                    Michael O‘Donnell (CAS Division 1)

                                                                                            Mel Gray, Chair (College of Business)

                                                                                            Leah Christensen (DLPP) 

                        Administrator                                        Joe Kreitzer 

                        Undergrad rep to 5/31/07                     TBA

                        Grad Student    to 5/31/07                    TBA

 

 

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Committee on Teaching Evaluations

 

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