Written comments shall be solicited from students in all courses, regardless of enrollment size. Students shall be clearly informed, either verbally or through instructions on the form used for written comments, that results of their evaluation play an important role in faculty development, in future promotion and tenure decisions and in post-tenure reviews. The forms used for student comments shall clearly state that the faculty member responsible for the course will have access to the written comments, but only after the grades for the course have been submitted. Procedure for Administration and Use of Student Evaluations. All final course evaluations are to be conducted either in class during dead week, or during the period of time allocated to the final examination.
Evaluations are to be conducted by a person other than the faculty member.
The faculty member must not be present during the evaluation. Students must be given sufficient time to complete quantitative questionnaires and write evaluative comments if they desire. Forms containing written comments are to be sorted into signed and unsigned groups. The signed forms are to be copied for use by the department. After grades have been submitted and the computer analysis of the quantitative questionnaires has been completed, the results of the quantitative evaluation, the original signed written evaluations, and all unsigned evaluations are to returned to the faculty member.