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University of Iowa Student Activities Bulletin, 1967-1970

1970-01-03 Course Evaluation: A Service to the Community of Scholars Page 1

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Vol. IV, No. 8        January 5, 1970

COURSE EVALUATION: A SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS  
 
   The purposes of the course evaluation are as follows:

   1. To provide students with information, descriptive and evaluative, about courses.
   2. To provide individual teachers with feedback from students.
   3. To compile and convey the student voice to curriculum planners.

   After reading and discussing the problems of the contemporary University, several students and faculty in an Action Studies course of fall 1968, felt a student controlled and published course evaluation would be a tangible, if small, step towards solving these problems. These students' pilot project covered three departments with financing from Senate.

   The attempt now is to innovate the course evaluation idea into the Student Senate framework so the program will become institutionalized. A central staff is gradually forming so interested students are encouraged to contact the Course Evaluation Program Director, Greg Moore at 353-5461 or at the Senate Office in the Activities Center, Iowa Memorial Union.

   Eventually the evaluation shall include the total university. Ideally, groups of students in various colleges, departments, schools, etc., will design questionnaires for their specific purpose, collect the data and present it to the Course Evaluation Headquarters where the central staff can prepare the data for publication.

   Meanwhile, the questionnaire now used is a modification of the one the students in the ASP course designed. The instructors' questionnaires is also sent out to the faculty by mail and was also prepared by that class.

   The strategy to encompass this University with the evaluation is historically based. The ASP students covered the bulk of three departments. This semester it has decided to declare a list of priority courses following the guideline that they are 100 level or below, offered both this semester and next in departments where a large number of students are enrolled, excluding courses of independent study and readings and "arranged" class times.

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PLEASE POST Vol. IV, No. 8 January 5, 1970 COURSE EVALUATION: A SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS The purposes of the course evaluation are as follows: 1. To provide students with information, descriptive and evaluative, about courses. 2. To provide individual teachers with feedback from students. 3. To compile and convey the student voice to curriculum planners. After reading and discussing the problems of the contemporary University, several students and faculty in an Action Studies course of fall 1968, felt a student controlled and published course evaluation would be a tangible, if small, step towards solving these problems. These students' pilot project covered three departments with financing from Senate. The attempt now is to innovate the course evaluation idea into the Student Senate framework so the program will become institutionalized. A central staff is gradually forming so interested students are encouraged to contact the Course Evaluation Program Director, Greg Moore at 353-5461 or at the Senate Office in the Activities Center, Iowa Memorial Union. Eventually the evaluation shall include the total university. Ideally, groups of students in various colleges, departments, schools, etc., will design questionnaires for their specific purpose, collect the data and present it to the Course Evaluation Headquarters where the central staff can prepare the data for publication. Meanwhile, the questionnaire now used is a modification of the one the students in the ASP course designed. The instructors' questionnaires is also sent out to the faculty by mail and was also prepared by that class. The strategy to encompass this University with the evaluation is historically based. The ASP students covered the bulk of three departments. This semester it has decided to declare a list of priority courses following the guideline that they are 100 level or below, offered both this semester and next in departments where a large number of students are enrolled, excluding courses of independent study and readings and "arranged" class times.