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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 2

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January 5, 1970 STUDENT ACTIVITIES BULLETIN Page 2 Accordingly, the courses to be done are in these departments; Economics, Political Science, Chemistry, English, Natural Science Cores, Business Administration, Journalism, Speech and Drama, Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, Geography, and Sociology. The information gathered according to the guideline will be relevant to second semester registration, therefore, published forms will be available two or three days before registration until final drop-add date of courses. Students have been encouraged to use the materials available to them at the C. E. Headquarters to administer questionnaires in classes they are taking now whether they are priority courses or not. This practice will bring in information that can be published before second semester registration and information will be stored until after the priority courses are prepared and published. During second semester this information can be prepared for publishing before first semester registration of the next year, when the course is offered. After taking a survey of the courses done in this manner, the staff may decide to complete a department by asking students to come to a central location during the second semester and fill out questionnaires for courses they took during the first semester. This method of gathering data may increase biases and decrease the number of responses per class, but it could be tried. In general there are three alternatives to collecting the data (1) Administer questionnaires to students during class time, (2) Request students to come to a central location to fill out questionnaires, or (3) Mail questionnaire and five answer sheets and a #2 pencil to all students, enclosing instructions. Other schools have experienced a limited return using the latter procedure. Until the evaluation at the University of Iowa becomes more established, the last procedure is not recommended. Currently the first procedure is going on, and the second may be tried. Procedure Number One in detail involves the following steps: 1. Contact individual instructors requesting consent for class time, number of students who attend, and a specific time and date to administer the questionnaires. 2. Send out faculty questionnaires. 3. Administer questionnaires during class time. 4. Send answer sheets to Evaluation and Testing Service for scoring. 5. Using the computer printout and returned questionnaires from the instructors, write an evaluation of the course. The format used in the Fall of 1968 included information form the instructor about the course, himself, and the students, information about and opinions from the students, and the editor's comments. 6. Send the materials to the printer. 7. Sell the book. Success when using the above procedure depends not just on cooperation by students, but their active participation in taking the materials the central staff has prepared to at least the classes they attend and more if they have time. The final outcome will be a handbook with information about readings, structures, lectures, teachers, tests, etc. This book will be sold for a nominal price before registration and at registration.
 
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